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Title: Lecture: The Alphabet
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astral body dive down into his etheric body and his physical body, he
content of the etheric and the physical bodies. The etheric body is
the external aspect of the physical body. As I have mentioned in the
inwardly from our etheric and physical bodies; if we then look down
into the etheric body and the physical body so that we perceive what
is given to him through physical inheritance by parents and ancestors.
In the etheric body and in the physical body there echoes the music of
etheric body, and in the physical body in so far as it is of a
in the physical body is the echo of what resounds from the single
physical body we unconsciously bear a reflection of the cosmic
contributes to the form of the physical body, are built up in such a
the formative forces taken up into the physical body, and also into
echo of cosmic vowels; I am a physical body, in other words, the echo
Zodiac; and the life of this echo is my physical body. An echo is
1. Physical body = Echo of the Zodiac
physical body and etheric body. Those are no more than vague,
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. We remain entirely
in the abstract by saying: Man is composed first of physical body,
know his true nature, then his physical body actually ceases to be in
music today — the mathematical physicist reckons the pitch of a note,

Title: Lecture: Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
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Soul and Spirit in the Human Physical Constitution
the fact that in addition to his physical body, man also has higher
general idea is that man, as a physical structure, consists of the
physical organism exists for itself, as it were; it is the physical
begin with, as a solid organism. This is the physical body.
Physical organism: Physical body
Solid organism Physical body
— and it can also be done with physical methods of investigation
in man. In regard to the physical organism, therefore, the human being
around the physical organism.
physical organization within the space bounded by the human skin. We
astral body brings these forces of feeling into physical operation in
the physical body still intrudes and tones down the pictures into
of air-vibrations is like a person who says: Man has only his physical
the physical organism with no soul in it. The tone which lives in the
affinity of the outspreading physical air with the Light-Ether which
closely into these matters. During sleep it is only the physical body
being the forces that are within the physical and etheric bodies can
understanding not only of his relation to the surrounding physical
falling asleep. But thereby we come to know man's physical environment
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Title: Lecture: The Moral as the Source of World-Creative Power
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physical body. But it is paramountly the etheric body that takes hold
remain in the physical but at the same time reach up to the spiritual.
its qualities, differs completely from the physical which alone is
perception studied in physiology or physical anatomy. But in regard to
this: How is the moral world-order connected with the physical
outer physical world and can only resort to earlier religious beliefs
There, on the one side, is the physical world. According to the modern
see, we have come from the realm of soul into the physical!
easy to prove with physical instruments. Moral ideals, then, have a
except the outwardly visible physical body. The air with its vibrating
an etheric, not a physical seed of life such as issues from the
lays aside his physical body at death. What is thus produced in us
the physical body, these higher members of our human nature are filled
ideals and what works as life-giving force in the physical world, even
only if the physical is traced upwards to that rarefied state wherein
the soul can be directly active in the rarefied physical element, as
entities, whereas we today regard them merely as physical structures.
physical, but still thought of them as pervaded by living souls. In
times when it was no longer known how the physical passes over by
by stages into the physical, how in reality the two are united, men
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Title: Lecture: The Path to Freedom and Love and their Significance in World Events
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between the moral-spiritual world-order and natural-physical
world, which is a physical, material world. Constantly to be running
outer, physical reality. What, then, must it be?
physics is a delusion, because account is taken of the natural world

Title: Evil and the Future of Man
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also take hold of man — bring him physical death. In the great
reminiscence of outer physical life and thence receives its signature,
so for one who sees things in their reality, all physical things are
physical eyes can see of him is related to the true super-sensible

Title: Lecture: The Human Heart
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union with the physical body until the change of teeth begins.
the tendency to descend into physical embodiment. We see him there as
as physical body, in the maternal organism. With this physical body we
physical body.
Before he approaches his physical body — or rather the germ, the
universe. Here on earth we live in the physical world — in the world
unite — through the embryo — with the physical world, he draws to
when he is uniting with the physical, we should have a sphere — far
time, while the human being coalesces more and more with his physical
central etheric structure, at the time of puberty, the physical heart,
it, is the physical heart.
physical organism, a kind of etheric heart — a substitute etheric
heart, so to speak — is drawn together by the forces of the physical
observe man just after his entry into the physical world — i.e.,
world, from a world which is not there in the physical, or even the
slips into the physical organs — primarily into those organs which
through birth into this physical existence — we see it diving down
physical and etheric organs.
the physical organs the concrete forms which it brings with it from
another life. It sends them down into the physical organs, so that
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Title: Lecture: The Invisible Man Within Us
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in various recent studies I have explained how the physical
essentially during the entire physical life on earth, but it does not
express itself during physical earthly life as something outwardly
everything, in other words, that is cast away as physical
organization when the human being attains a free physical existence
body soul-spirit efficacy of the human being during his physical
formative forces), and the physical organization. Of course in the
human being after birth the physical organization of the invisible
man is inserted into the other human physical organization, but in
the invisible man can lay hold of the physical organization.
we have the physical organization (white). This physical organization
into the etheric, and on into the physical organization (see arrow).
They then spread out in the physical organization. In the human
embryo, what we call here the physical organization of the invisible
human being after birth, however, the physical organization of the
processes in the human being. Thus viewed from outside, this physical
organization is not separated from the other physical organization of
interpenetration of the physical and superphysical human being would
stream from ego to astral body, to etheric body, to physical body
etheric body; instead this stream lays hold of man's physical body
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Title: Lecture: Outlooks for the Future
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possessed it. Their physical body was far more hardened than that of man
physical body is concerned, and it has, I might say, been cast into solid
present time, man's physical body is extremely rigid, but his etheric body
is on the way of growing rigid, like the physical body.
Just as the physical body
forms penetrate into the physical body, will assert itself very strongly.
the physical body and the physical body will become a faithful copy of
physical body which shows an insufficiently developed occipital lobe,
be strong, so that it may be able to correct the mistakes of our physical
man's etheric body was active from within and moulded his physical body.
But a time will come, when both the physical and etheric body shall have

Title: Lecture: Self Knowledge and the Christ Experience
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physical-mineral processes. He bore in himself pictures of interweaving
one only became spiritual man with the laying aside of the physical body.
physical body you are not yet fully human, you are only a candidate for

Title: Lecture: Social Understanding Through Spiritual Scientific Knowledge
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fill our whole physical body. There is work in progress within our
physical body between birth and the seventh year, and this work comes to
It is obvious that the forces doing this work of developing the physical
still happens today — the forces that create organs in the physical body
that serves life, this is apparently a physical process. This physical
physical-perceptible existence on the one hand and super-sensible

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Emptiness and Social Life
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laws of chemistry, physics, biology, which, having been discovered at
spiritual world into the physical bodies dwelling in some particular
such migration. But in respect of physical heredity, the descendants
the material and the physical, thinks of this threefold membering, he
of it in physical existence. The nerves-and-senses life, everything

Title: Lecture: The Sun-Mystery in the Course of Human History
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the ego and astral body are outside the physical body; but our waking,
a physical orb in space, when the sun was darkened for man. To the
moving through universal space — but the fact is that physicists
Physically it appears as though the sun gives the planets light, but
enunciated as a categorical truth in every book of physics today. But

Title: Lecture: Truth Beauty and Goodness
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physical body — nowadays the object of purely external observation.
the spiritual prototype, the spirit-form of his physical body. The
physical body here on earth is but an after-copy of the spirit-germ
In earthly life the human being is conscious of his physical body, but
physical body. When man is confronted by a simple fact, he may either
truth, he is in harmony with the feeling he has of his physical body,
nay also with his sense of the connection between this physical body
spun, and this is concentrated into an after-copy — the physical
body. Many threads connect this physical body with pre-earthly
physical point of view. But when, through untruthfulness, he severs
down into his physical body, and especially into the constitution of
the nervous system. The feeling he has of his physical body gives him
the physical body to pre-earthly existence. If they break, man must
into an inner uncertainty that makes itself felt even in the physical body.
Indeed, we only understand this physical world aright when we realize
worthy of his being. To be aware of the spirit within the physical
in effect, an intimate kinship between the physical body and this
real experience, we are, in a sense, living rightly in the physical
the physical body, Beauty is connected with the etheric body.
that bind man to physical existence, without the others around him.
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Title: The Individuality of Elias, John, Raphael, Novalis
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we are accustomed to call “stars” in the external, physical sense

Title: Lecture: Exoteric and Esoteric Christianity
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forces of death. In a physical way, we might say that death can enter
the physical world. For, behind this veil, the adjustment between the

Title: Lecture: The Origin of Speech and Language
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know how to look at what happens to the physical body when a person
Therefore, in people living more in the physical world the white

Title: Lecture: The Sense-Organs and Aesthetic Experience
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sense-perceptible. For we have seen that here in the physical world
very much tied to the physical, earthly world. The same applies to
physical balance, as it does with the physical body here, but in a
into the physical world, we cannot look to the higher senses for
hand and the physical bodily nature on the other, without becoming
to the physical world — although it should be applied only to
not tolerated by the physical body. If the physical body is too weak
the physical body is strong enough to prevail, it weakens the vision.
a vision on someone made ill by it. If the physical organism is so
those senses best fitted for the physical plane which have to be
physical world, have to be completely transformed if they are to
of course with the physical sense-organ — then he would have to
working only as ordinary life-processes belonging to the physical
the aesthetic realm when secretion leads to physical excretion. It
should be a process in the soul, not going as far as physical
excretion; but it should be the same process that underlies physical
physical by means of the spirit. Materialism has brought not only an
the physical. For the spirit lives in all physical things, and if one
knows nothing of the spirit, one cannot understand the physical.
metaphysical abstraction. What Schiller calls the liberation of
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Title: Lecture: A Turning-Point in Modern History
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coming from physical nature; this Schiller calls the influence of
productivity is for the State what physical food is for individual
wanted to be an outstanding physician, he went to Montpellier or to

Title: Lecture: Elemental Beings and Human Destinies
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within the external physical air or among the products of the mineral,
relation between their Mystery knowledge and physical health and
you were physicists, I would draw your attention to how people reckon
This observation I make for the benefit of physicists. They will

Title: Lecture: Man, Offspring of the World of Stars
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Spiritual Science. The Sun which the physicist believes to be a
Earth, but the Sun is not physical at all. It is spiritual in its
the physical product of the generations is a product of the Moon
Think of the human being as he stands there before us in his physical
body. This physical body takes in the foodstuffs from the outer world
the physical body is permeated by the astral body and in the astral
physical and astral body.
they are active in the physical body and are then taken hold of by the
between the physical body and astral body the etheric body is
physical body. His etheric body relates him to the whole environment
living in the physical world between birth and death. The astral
between the astral body and the physical body. When, for instance, a
not leave or come down again properly into his etheric and physical
bodies or in some other way is not rightly connected with the physical
physical body. And it is the Saturn forces too which mediate the
irregularly in his physical body. Knowledge of these influences played
properly connected with his physical organisation. This lies at the
forces through his physical body. And on the other side he is bound up

Title: Lecture: The Three Stages of Sleep
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person sleeps, the astral body and Ego are outside the physical
awake, they re-enter the etheric and physical bodies very
does not immediately penetrate into the physical body, but
leaving the physical body, the sleeper lingers in the etheric
same thing that there takes place in a physical sense takes
outside the physical body in the spiritual world, we perceive
the physical body, diving down instantaneously into it. The
the physical body, the person enters the etheric body. Then the
night without returning to your physical body, so that this
physical body rose up before you and you were to look upon it
takes place in the physical body — with their souls human
connected with the physical body. You then enter into a sleep
physical body. The soul can have no relation to what is thus
world in which we lived before we descended into our physical
physical world was concerned Frederick Barbarossa was drowned,
the following way. Human beings here in the physical world are
physical world; how Christ came from the spiritual world into
the physical world; and further how again the sensible world
clairvoyant vision and not with physical eyes. The legends of

Title: Lecture: Spiritual Wisdom in the Early Christian Centuries
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swept away from the physical world.

Title: Lecture: The Recovery of the Living Source of Speech
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physical man. “ And the Word became flesh ”.
how, just where the physical and material grows weak and faint and

Title: Lecture: Gnostic Doctrines and Supersensible Influences in Europe
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physical life of humanity. It is by no means enough to admit that the
Spirit pervades all things physical, for this is to recognise one
physical world are connected with impulses emanating from the
higher level than the physical world but peopled none the less by
realisation that spiritual foundations underlie this physical world
interest to human beings in those days than the physical world —
Christendom. Men's minds were now directed to the physical
but an impulse to give an earthly, physical garb to purely spiritual
physical world, there arose during the later Middle Ages, continuing
applied merely to the purposes of physical existence and of the world
goes its way, concerning itself merely with physical affairs. But all
phenomena of the world man perceives with his physical eyes and
grasps with his physical brain — are playing into earthly
is their home just as it is the home of physical humanity. They are

Title: Lecture I: Ancient Myths
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say the cosmic sulphur. Today, indeed, many a physical-natural
read in elementary books on physics, through some sort of friction
human being on the physical plane if one wants to find Osiris, one

Title: Lecture II: Ancient Myths
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Fourth Epoch knew: when we look around us we see only the physical,
process reaches more directly into the physical. But that is not
expression physically in the change of voice.
Osiris was dead for the outer world — almost a physical
process. It was not merely a physical process in the ages when Osiris
us all the time. The air is not only what physical science describes,
physical world, perceive, conceive. That was something which in his
nothing in it but what was shown physically. Beings live in it which

Title: Lecture III: Ancient Myths
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speak? It speaks of the physical origin of man in connection with
physical beings of the line of descent. Fundamentally the so-called
but a conception placing the doctrine of physical descent in the
just as it means a descent from physical beings, that one is born and

Title: Lecture IV: Ancient Myths
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expression then came to an end for men living on the physical plane;
The belief that the physical human being must in a certain way take
than those we go by when in physical life we set our clock by them.
envelopment of his chest, in his chest-cuirass. As physical human
because in a physical sense it is this true copy, in a spiritual
as physical head, the human head is not of very much value. And when
human being. And as regards the physical world it was the most
with all its forces, purely as physical thinking-instrument, as
instrument for physical thoughts, is an image of the starry heavens.
to make an electricity experiment in the Physics classroom, I
Physics is the conservation of energy, of force. That is to be traced
back to Julius Robert Mayer. Although physicists and
physical body, which is linked with the becoming young of his etheric

Title: Lecture V: Ancient Myths
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In so doing the man's physical forces undergo manifold changes and
through our nature, our physical forces. We have stated that in the
by our power of will. We become physically different in our twenties
and in this becoming different physically there lives at the same
Then the physical ceases to let us be dependent on it; then, so to
speak, our physical nature hands over nothing more, and through our
catastrophe. Then indeed man was still dependent on his physical
external physical cosmic conditions of human existence alter in
of the sciences which count for the most in public life: physics,
older. But only our physical body grows older. For from the spiritual
deception. It is certainly a reality in respect of physical life, but
being who lives here in the physical world between birth and death is
something else than merely his physical body. He consists of the
and death, just as we carry about our physical body of flesh and
forces, but we see there is a difference: the physical body grows
younger, in contrast to the physical-corporeal that becomes weak and
indicated. People reckon only with man's physical body, never with

Title: Lecture VI: Ancient Myths
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physical form that wanders about before our eyes as man — far,
far more is man. But this physical structure that wanders round
say: Not only can one recognize in the human form, in the physical
here in the physical word, but, if one only will, one can also
as absolute, develop them metaphysically — that we will not do.
case; the remaining part is only a fragment as physical man, and it
in his thirtieth year. To outer physical observation such a sudden
what they seem to us here on the physical plane. A sudden death
planets, the fixed stars, is at most a kind of cosmic physics —
it is no more — cosmic mechanics, cosmic physics. What the
purely with a phenomenon of the physical plane. One can understand
the physical plane. What has developed for France, at any rate
outside France, is to be understood through physical plane
of the physical plane.
no longer be possible merely from physical plane relations to
March — the fall of the Czar — has a metaphysical
metaphysical character. Why then was there a Czar at all? The
to be understood — from the aspect of the physical plane. For,

Title: Lecture VII: Ancient Myths
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we regard man's external physical form, we can distinguish in it the
in the physical world, it is only apparently determined by mere
of our organism, in so far as it is physical, through a kind of
physical aura which Professor Benedict is able to find by natural
physical, for as regards the spiritual part of the remaining
physical substance, not a chemical element, but actually spiritual,
the etheric body, and which, while we are growing old physically,
enter physical life through birth, and again we live as souls when we
physical matter. Since our head has been formed and shaped by the
physical organism falls away from us, our spiritual part with our
physical out of the spirit, burying our spirit nature in the head, in
upon earth it is reversed. We leave the physical behind; the physical
can say therefore: Birth denotes the resurrection of the physical,
the spiritual being changed into the physical; death denotes the
birth of the spiritual, the physical being given over to the
universe our physical element. By giving our spiritual part to the
universe through our birth, we are physical human beings. By giving
our physical part to the earth through death we are spiritual human
are already here during our physical life preparing the next planet
acquired physically this hard skull. And we may ask when mankind

Title: Lecture: The Remedy for Our Diseased Civilisation
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when he lays aside the physical body, when his spiritual part is

Title: Lecture: Goethe and the Evolution of Consciousness
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The modern physicist rejects Goethe because he lives in the very
with our method of constructing a world out of chemical and physical
an external symptom only, it is significant that the physics, for
pure magic in those days. Any history of physics tells us as much.

Title: Lecture: Salt, Mercury, Sulphur
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together with his physical body. The fact of pre-existence was

Title: Lecture: Some Conditions for Understanding Supersensible Experiences
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existence in the physical body. But neither are they without
earth originates from those who are living in the physical body. The
dead are perpetually working into our physical world. The forces of
nevertheless at work in the physical world. Our physical environment
evolution on the earth. A time will come in the physical evolution of
incarnating in bodies derived from physical parents. In that epoch,
same form of physical life beyond this time in the sixth or seventh
continuing to be held in the grip of physical incarnation. One of the
physical children. In order to make the picture graphic, I will put
longer incarnates physically, there is nevertheless a similarity. If
proper for us in the physical body. Even the experiences gained by
formulating what happens here in the physical world.
presentation of the physical experience.
Thinking that is bound up with the body is proper to physical life
just as here in earthly life he makes use of thinking in the physical
them as little as you could physically see the objects in a dark
physical world, is your body. It becomes a mirror, reflecting back to
that belongs to physical existence.

Title: Lecture: The Relation of the Movement for Religious Renewal to the Anthroposophical Movement
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becomes, let us say, chemical as Chemistry is today, physical as
Physics is today, or biological as Biology is today. That must not

Title: Lecture: Concerning the Origin and Nature of the Finnish Nation
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enabled the human being to be a conqueror upon the physical plane)
of the physical plane, an elemental, heroic Being, the inspirator of
Just as man’s physical
powerful beings, that do not belong to the physical plane, but are
lives upon the physical plane, says that the western sea stretches
spiritual essence of the external physical aspect, we simply take
mould man, through the etheric body, in such away that his physical
etheric part of man and refines his physical part, namely, the liquid
earth and forms the physical part of man.

Title: Lecture: Perceiving and Remembering
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the human etheric body as it is connected with the physical body. We shall
sketch the physical body as a kind of rind of the etheric body, though it
etheric and physical body, and there, belonging to them, as is understood, in
we are awake, that the astral body and ego are within the physical and
the instruments of the senses and their nerve extensions in the physical
and ego, which during the day, when we are awake, is within the physical and
physical body, and therefore the movements of the light-ether impinge
everywhere on the physical body. Through these impacts, the light movements
us through contact with the physical body that we are aware of them.
physical body is not there, that is when the body has passed through the
physical body to conceptions that are only possible in the physical body.
etheric body, now freed from the physical body and no longer restrained by
which the experiences of the physical body had at one time aroused in it. The
possible for us always so to control the physical body as we could make
physical body, but the actual swayings and movements of the etheric body
impacts of the etheric body on the physical body?
Ahriman has shackled the physical body so firmly to the whole being of man,
compressed the physical body to the etheric body; and because the spirits
darkness. This is because the organisation of the physical body and etheric
Powers in the spiritual world, let me in my physical body be conscious in the
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Title: Perception of the Nature of Thought
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namely, the first rudiments of our physical bodily nature. What we
uncover the forces which at that time worked upon our physical body.
field of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Physiology etc., which calls
physical observation as well as from the historical observation
be seen when we confront a man in the physical world.
in the physical world, we have the physical body as coming from the
Earth existence through his physical birth, it is active before the
external physical ray of light can penetrate his eye, it is active
external physical human being; in what grows from the ovum, becoming
here, we have to do with the complete human being, with his physical
Physical Body
the laws underlying the foundation of the physical body we must look
in the physical body, we have something that is not so spiritual, so
Physical body
Physical body
within them what the Sun-evolution laid down in their physical and
physical body and this as we know ends at death.
that not alone the etheric, but the physical body too gave rise to
lives on the physical plane: for seven years he develops the physical
Earth existence itself. For just as the sun rises on the physical
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Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets
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bodies, and have worked out a certain kind of physics and chemistry
the physical organism of man, leaving out of account altogether the
When we speak of the Moon as a physical body in the heavens, its
physical nature is only the external, the most external, revelation
man and are connected with his sexual nature in its physical aspect.
problem of existence are unsuccessful because of physical, etheric,
physical existence. Venus transforms the occurrences of earthly life
All these things have their physical side as well. Impulses go out
not interested in things of a physical, material nature as such, but
physical existence. Venus provides the forces for the basic qualities
generation by way of the physical.
long as we take in only what the physicists know of it. We can grasp

Title: Lecture: The Elemental World and the Future of Mankind
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insight into the fact that within the physical-soul-spiritual
The sciences of physics, chemistry and biology which are pursued
If one has in mind their physical aspect only, when speaking about
they are referred to today, all one has in mind is how the physical
lot more. So counting them as one would on the physical plane is no
are needed, physical ones do not suffice, so one resorts to
the sky is not merely the physical sun, but that with the sun's
sophisticated sciences of physics and chemistry investigate the
resort, chemistry and physics have no value whatever beyond the
As already mentioned, whatever physical laws are discovered,

Title: Lecture: A Picture of Earth-Evolution in the Future
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science of colour must be lifted out of the realm of abstract physics into a
how that which modern physics, with its unimaginative charts, casts down into
iron teeth. This was a physical and more tangible procedure than that to which
woman began with the departure of the moon, but this physical form of birth is

Title: Lecture: The Spiritual Communion of Mankind
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human being descends into his physical body on the Earth. Every human
reality, but of a spiritual world lying hidden behind the physical

Title: Lecture: Technology and Art: Their Bearing on Modern Culture
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the physical and etheric bodies. In such circumstances, owing to
our physical and etheric bodies, so that while we are asleep in a
and astral body, as they return into the physical body, bring with
and the dragging, are brought into the physical and etheric bodies,
order prevailing in the physical and etheric bodies. He really brings
same as if the physical body were being crushed to pieces in a
part of the first stage. We demolish physical Nature and thereby
into the etheric and physical bodies. For he brings back with him
astral body — brought into the etheric and physical bodies
physical sound only. But until the 14th or 15th century something

Title: Lecture: The Inexpressible Name, Spirits of Space and Time.
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and the physical body. The fact that whenever we face a human being
fills out space with his physical body and that we see his physical
body. Yet we could not see this physical part as we generally see it
physical body. We see the physical body with our ordinary eyes, as it
if I tell you that our physical body is a corpse, even during the
really have before us man's physical body. The corpse is the
physical body which is not permeated by the etheric body, by the
space what you imagine to be your physical body. You would have a far
with the external physical world, for they are facts revealed by
so corpse-like as the human bodies of today. These physical bodies
physical body of modern man — and this is already the case from
Along the chemical-physical path, they will only be able to
forces, is nevertheless the physical body; that is, the corpse. What
in the same way in which the physical body recognizes lifeless
physical body which is dead to a high degree, and this lifeless

Title: Lecture: The Coming Experience of Christ
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into physical existence through conception and birth he lived in a
blood and in his other organs by his physically inherited
of earthly physical existence.
that what man has to-day as his physical body is in essentials an
just as physical body, ether body and astral body have been
physical body to a higher stage. But this transmutation of the
physical body will not take place until the seventh condition, and
physical body, but what I have to do is to prefigure them in my soul.
external sheaths, his astral body, ether body and physical body; but,
as the physical Christ appeared at the time of the Mystery of
them in the physical body.
a purely earthly, physical being. The new experience of the Christ

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physical world and we are conscious that if we attempt to experience a
the physical world he quite rightly does not pay attention to his thinking
he did not feel himself living between birth and death in the physical
down not into the physical qualities of things but into the spiritual
other hand, pass out of the physical body with our soul and unite
suppression of the normal function of the physical body through inflicting
be as firmly as possible within his physical body. But whenever the
ascetic suppressed some function of the body by means of physical pain,
soul and spirit of man are connected with the physical organism between

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of Jesus. All that came to his notice in this way in the physical world
had come to an end in the physical sense, Paul was still an antagonist of
Impulse by evidence of the physical senses, but who could be convinced
physical development until an advanced age. The parallelism between the
physical earthly life for just so long as the duration of the span of
life which ran in a parallelism between the physical organisation and
As physical man, Paul
parallelism between soul-and-spirit development and physical development
man beholds the spiritual in the physical things all around him, he
you will only find the way out of your purely physical vision of the

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spiritual world into physical existence, the human being,
yet come down to the physical world. In the age of Pisces

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sensible physical existence; they were to live solely in what streams from
who, even if a three times stronger power confronted them on the physical
human beings, as we live on earth, it is only in our physical body that we
sound and life and is within this physical body — the so-called ether
human being, even as the physical body of Man is built up from the physical
forces and physical substances of earth.
of the human being is just as much an organized entity as is the physical
organism. The physical organism — we see how it has head, arms, hands,
for spiritual vision, this physical organism is shone through and glowed by
the ether organism. The physical organism breathes in air, and breathes out
light, it uses up the light, just as we use up air physically. (You may read
the impulses of life. As we receive physical nourishment so does the ether
ether body travels quite a different path from our physical body. After we
grow old. Physically, one dies earlier and another later; seen from a
spiritual aspect, we all become old alike. If we die early, our physical body
years that we live in physical and in ether body as human beings — we
have the deeds on earth that we accomplish in the physical body, and we have
only in accordance with external physical reality, only in accordance with
French Revolution that they believed in the physical plane alone. It may be
Revolution were conscious only of the physical plane.
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when awake, our ego and astral body are within our physical body. I
while it is outwardly unfolding its physical nature — it is
physically, externally, it is going through no development; then the
The man who is limited in his physical senses, and
these physical senses, can at first know nothing of this great
present time because man chiefly makes use of his physical body alone
use of his physical body, but will again learn to use his etheric

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recognised and certified physicians whose business it is to look

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manner on the physical body. Thereupon a complete
physical body of man. In the outer world, matter is nowhere
thus permeated with thought-forces works on the physical body in such
physical body. This centre of destruction within modern Western man

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coming into existence of man himself as a physical being, and then I
as physical man through physical conception and physical birth. But
what is observable within the physical world must be inadequately
contemplated if one fails to see behind the physical world a
its physical source in the Sun-nature of the cosmos. Moon-nature and

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soul before descent into a physical body through conception
from Divine-Spiritual worlds, had entered into physical bodies
perpetually the forces of death. In a physical sense we may say:
can only exist in a physical body, that as a being of

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stones, in the plants, in animals and in physical man, was still
in the stone, in the plant, in the animals, and in physical man —
certain extent, that our bodies are ill. All atheists are physically
— the physical body which is dense, then the etheric body
as we contemplate physical images; a new way of thinking must be found.

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mineralogy, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, etc. etc., —
take up the facts supplied by the science of chemistry, physics,
physics, chemistry, mineralogy, botany, geology, biology, offer, in
attention to what we do in the physical laboratory, to our behaviour

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penetrates beyond the merely physical into the
superphysical. And so great cities, such as Babylon,

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spiritual life into the physical. Initiation opens out to man
the possibility to advance from the physical plane into the
into the physical forms wherein it finds expression.
of the physical and the psychical, the following remark
the world externally, here in the physical world we have
man — to the system of his physical body. Look out over
the widespread environment which we can see on the physical
related to our own outer body — the physical human
our state of soul which is suited to the outer physical
saw no longer the ordinary world of the physical plane around
normally confronts the physical world. He came to
which was physically there around him. There was an immense
which a man who only knows the outer physical plane has no
physical plane which I have around me here is great, and the
outer physical world. You have a far more abundant world
still remains within the physical. But when he thus
the physical world. It leads him through all the regions
now he awakens again in the physical world.
again into the physical world.
physically about him. And anon the woman is there again at
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Title: Lecture: The Shaping of the Human Form out of Cosmic and Earthly Forces
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The Bridge between Cosmic Spirituality and the Physical
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen
fashioned on Earth, will be further organised physically,
the head. He will have different gifts, physically, if the
have a value transcending both the physical and the moral,
physical and moral at the same time. The beauty shining
both the physical and the moral.
connected with repeated earth-lives. Because physically he is

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that everything in existence is merely a mechanical, physical or
bodily nature and his nature of soul and Spirit, between physical
his physical body — a sum-total of material processes —
with the physical elements of the body. This is Anthroposophical
physics, mathematics, chemistry, physiology, biology, anthropology.
chatter about man being composed of physical body, etheric body,
are faced with all the physical diseases. They are investigated by
thought to be of a physical nature and are to be found within the
physical disease. In certain cases of mental trouble we must often
in certain cases of physical diseases, we must study the Spiritual
by all kinds of physical methods, then it will of itself be the
physical body, etheric body, astral body, Ego, reincarnation, karma
“physical” means — by healing the organs of man,
health-bringing force into the physical organisation of
physical organism of man. It knows nothing of the tremendous effect

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physical body of man in all its form is the result of a mighty
it in a sense the spiritual germ of his future physical earthly body
condition, we have in effect lost our physical body — i.e. we
Physics to believe that the peculiar forms in the air are the reality

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and that time when a certain physicist prepared a frog's leg which
the atoms in the sphere of physics otherwise than of tiny, unelastic,
at the same time the moral element in Nature. Modern physicists have
we listen to a modern physicist blandly explaining that Nature

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enabled them to leave the physical body. When human beings left their
physical bodies through forces acquired in the Mysteries and ventured
within an ordinary physical human body; a specially prepared soul,
spiritual being, with physicality.
or soul — and the physical body of Jesus of Nazareth. He tried to
physical bodies. Clemens of Alexandria expressed this clearly when he
blood — one with the Father in the physical world — we must
differentiate in the human being our physical body, ether body,
single individual, we again differentiate between the physical
spiritual soul and the physical part in each individual human being
possible — in the form of a direct physical
death; that the physical body is surrendered to the elements; that,
The human physical body enters this earth; it is given over to the
Imagine that Adam's grave — Adam surrendered as a physical body
by Lucifer? It is the fact that we enter the physical world as
connection with our physical body. Before acquiring such a connection
through the physical body, children still live in an element that
acquire only through the physical body; but this has no connection
whatsoever with what lies outside the physical body.
way and on the physical level, something that does not become
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understanding when we speak of the physical bodily nature of man on
ideas about the physical and bodily with comparative ease, for it is
things physical and bodily with the world of soul and spirit. Indeed for
imaginable difficulties. They know that the physical and bodily is
physical and bodily. But the spiritual as such is nowhere to be found
itself belongs — work upon the physical and bodily which is in space?
physical and bodily, which is spatial. Some people say: In the will,
other hand the processes which are called forth by the physical world
physical and spatial process which takes place in
to which I have often referred, of ‘psychophysical
nothing of the relation of the physical and bodily to the
a spatial, a physical-bodily process. Simultaneously, while this is taking
that when the physical and bodily process takes place in space and
psycho-physical parallelism: a psychical process takes its
between the bodily and physical, clearly spread out as it is in space,
has placed the bodily-physical and the soul-and-spirit sharply and
physical in such a way that the soul has no conceivable place
so sharply separated from the physical and bodily,
cannot possibly impinge at any point upon the physical. ...
the physical world-are in the three dimensions of space. Hence the
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him in the building up of his physical body. From then on these
in man from the moment he enters upon his physical, earthly life.
clothed from the physical outer world with physical bodily
substance. In this physical bodily substance which we
thought-forces which we bring with us through birth into physical
quite meaninglessly, purely out of the activity of the physical body,
forces which live absolutely and complete in the physical covering
this tapestry of the senses. The physicist, or people generally who
everything which we have in the physical world. That these
life before physical conception. Why is it that we are able to
circumscribed shadow pictures. If a physical object shines it
surface, below the merely physical side of things. Hence we derive
physical-substance. Previously physical matter was there. Now
into waking life his Ego and astral body enter into the physical and

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knowing what is going on in the physical world, and knowing
the moon are all around us. When we are physically asleep we
physical world around us. We are asleep in exactly the same
way when we are wholly given up to the physical environment,
and ideas that are wholly derived from the physical world. It
physical world, rather than follow mere instinct and chase
They are thirsting for destructive powers in the physical
alive here on the physical plane.
our physical world lies another, non-physical or spiritual

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processes here on the physical plane, or the spiritual
response to present events on this physical plane is one of
destructive processes here on the physical plane because
physical body, etheric body — the body of generative
different regions and spheres of the universe. Our physical
body and our generative powers relate to the physical world;
physical and etheric bodies. The first beginnings of the
physical body go back to the time of ancient Saturn. That
our human intellect is intimately bound up with the physical
physical body has gone through such a comprehensive process
‘physical body’ we are speaking of something that
its own element in the physical body; the astral body also
created its own element in the physical body, and so did the
ego. The physical body thus really has four elements to it.
One of these relates to the physical body as such, one to the
with the physical body for the moment. We find that during
the night, when we are asleep, the element of the physical
body relating to the physical body continues in the usual
continue, for the etheric body stays with the physical body.
elements — let us call them the astral physical body
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the science of the spirit is called the physical plane. And
physical world.
through it, knows that this world on the physical plane can
achieved on the physical plane. This is the source of many
physical world and believe that if they realize this we shall
think of is how to arrange things on this physical plane so
future on this physical plane is of a wonderful paradise. Do
in the physical world. And if it is a law that there never
can be perfection in the physical world, just as it is a law
else, in reality they believe only in the physical world. And
physical world around them, the only ideal they can possibly
have is to arrange things in the physical world in such a way
the illusion that, however imperfect this physical world may
physical world and the other spheres of the world. In no way
realization here in the physical world. There is nothing in
kingdom of the physical world and make it into one of
the physical world by giving people something which is not of
always alive in the world but are not of this physical
physical objects, fools who invent things which merely work
dealing with physical matter and mechanics, such a thing will
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spiritual background to the physical world. If people are not
lectures I spoke of the non-physical world which borders
directly on our physical world. This is the world humanity
You know, as soon as you enter into a non-physical world,
being enters this physical world from the non-physical, and
then leaves it again for the non-physical world. To give them
powers which are inimical to life in the physical world.
in the physical world, the divine spirits who guide world
welfare and well-being here in the physical world. If
— to be comfortable in this physical world, be fit and
provides for the welfare of human beings here in the physical
hostile to the physical world are used by the gods to bring
and desires are destructive for ordinary physical human life.
death, however, but within the realm of physical life. If
their physical nature and their souls could make their bodies
occasions of birth and death is clearly apparent in physical
them into giants, or letting the physical organism develop in
being and passing away of humans at the physical level. But
physical world; it can only prove destructive to the human
extent, ideas from the physical sciences can be used as
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is also true for all physical creatures which inhabit the
complete harmony with physical development — I have
physical perfection. Now, we are really here to be part of a
will no longer become part of the outer physical body to the
physical body which caused the Intuitions, Inspirations and
come from their unconscious physical aspect but out of deeper
world of the spirit; we do not belong to the physical world.
have knowledge does belong to the physical world; the rest is
own between the inner life and the physical body were to
physical bodies and yet be present on earth. Existence holds
evil. But only the outer physical body, not the individual
connection with the physical has become less close. This,
earth evolution they will withdraw from the outer physical
judgement only on their physical environment; they do not
clockwork in those visible physical heads. These people have
the basis of physical relationships and it was known that if
expression in our physical nature, this will inevitably take
like Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, of the outward, physical body
independent of the physical body.
physicians will be asked to drive the souls out of

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this: When you walk on earth as an ordinary physical human
physical colours in the way we do today, or hear physical
elemental world. We might put it like this: The physical
events of the physical world can also be used to establish
will look just the same there as they do in the physical
physical world and exactly the opposite in the spiritual
world. In the physical world it is not a distinction to have
someone who is only used to the physical world and who
interpretation in the physical world. I was not simply

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us and gives spiritual, if not exactly physical, weight to
transubstantiation from the process of physical conversion of
out of the physical body, could walk across the embers with
their physical bodies. It really was so in the past. This is
connection was a close one; later, the outer physical being
who lives in the physical world merely has to follow this

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doing alright, one might say, with regard to the physical and
material world, for the physical world ignores them, and they
thinking about the physical world in abstract terms. We can
a particular age and the outer physical events of a time
anything which emerges in the physical world has first lived
aspects of the physical world, the mere surface of that
discoveries have been made in recent times about physical

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which they relate to the physical world. Yet the ultimate
future evolution of the earth, and from the physical point of
physical laws which can now be observed. But I think you will
not exist as a physical human being; neither will it exist as
a physical human being in a hundred and fifty years'
use physical means to put protein on a wall where it will
This is bound to happen as part of the physical changes, no
the physical world are, in fact, particularly powerful at the
these are always non-physical elements — drove them to
cycles or periods. Anything which happens in the physical
plane separating the spiritual and the physical worlds. What
in the physical world in 1913 are the mirror-image of the
the physical world can really only be understood if one knows
behind all physical things. Talking about the spirit in vague

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account that anything which happens in the physical world has
between the spiritual and the physical worlds are part of the
see and physical ears cannot hear: a second world with

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imagined by modern mineralogists, geologists and physicists.
physical world will have to be invented, a conversation

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the physical world and the spiritual world and take as much
only to natural phenomena, phenomena of the physical world
they would physically descend from others. In this way they
physical heredity was given to humanity by the spirits of
place of the purely physical blood bonds. For only the bonds
physical existence.
lines. Darwinism considers physical evolution from the
physical side: external impulses, struggle for survival,
enter into a physical body, but this is a transitional stage.
not want to understand physical life and practised a false
physical body in all kinds of ways. It has to be understood
cosmos. Gaining knowledge of the physical world has merely
Physical
physical sense with Copernicanism, and soul awareness must
physical life in the wrong way. The physical will take its
physical life continues to be bound to the soil. The
transplanted to America. The physical human being does adapt
considerable difference in physical form between Americans
this physical process the American Indian culture would be
over the world people may then assume the physical
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that the purely physical intellect and a culture based on
physical thinking and is bound to the brain. A materialist
physical intellect which I have mentioned are a reflection
between the physical and the spiritual worlds can be found by
using the physical intellect is very much in error. This
rules of logic used are those of the physical sciences. These
apply only to the physical world, however; they do not apply
to the relationship between the physical and the spiritual
mediums, that is essentially by physical means. If this had
physical acumen on the one hand, and a way of seeking
critical, physical intelligence and the mediumistic approach,
the physical world. And there is much more of this, also in
would not exist for the physical world.
physical means. I have told you that the spirits of darkness
their lives people will believe only in the physical world
teaching the exact sciences of mathematics, physics and
that someone who had used physics, mechanics, mathematics and

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physical world, for events here in the physical world truly
relationship is entirely unconnected with the physical world.
presented at a more physical level, for all things physical
which can be traced all the way to the physical structure of
consider its most material physical reflection, it took place
which do not allow physical human reproduction to continue
capable of physical development well into ripe old age;
above all to encourage the physical intellect by working
physical world in future — the position of the sun next

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outer physical nature with it. Through mere intellect one can
an intellectual ability that was effective only in the physical,
sense-perceptible physical world. A Dubois-Reymond, for
by virtue of a few anthroposophical catchwords like ‘physical
we have with the physical world must lead us over into the spiritual
accustomed himself to remaining with the facts in the physical sense
accustomed in the physical world to being imprecise, untrue, and

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pre-earthly existence, before we descended to a physical incarnation
of thinking abandons the firmer parts of the physical organism for the
humanity possesses as “idea” were to appear in physical
that the bones must in this case remain physical matter, in order

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event that took place, however, before Man became physically
into physical heredity. This is significant, for we here see
physical world of humanity, into the purely spiritual. Thus
from anything that could be contained in the mere physical
Hercules or Osiris existed as physical and human
Christ never was a physical personality, but a Sun. It was
to physical science — to the manipulations, the
physical science was in the main kept esoteric. It was this
openly. Not so what we to-day call Chemistry, Physics and
in the Mysteries to keep secret not so much physical science, but
the truths of physical science they grew more lax. These
were known. Only, as forming part of physical science, they
very ancient times it was the physical truths; then it became
what we may call physical science? The reason is deeply
unite with the processes of physical manipulations. When a
certain truths of physical science in the deepest secrecy. It
set to work with any physical manipulations (such as are done
knowledge of physical secrets, Moreover, not only had they to
be preserved from such physical manipulations as are normally
preserved from a purely physical knowledge of Astronomy.
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the thoughts of Physics and Chemistry and economic dealings in the
thoughts of Physics, Chemistry, Economics, international commerce and
that our Earth is no more than what Geology and Physics,
Mineralogy and Geophysics, are prepared to recognise. The
Logos, which is there on the physical plane through that
our sense-perceptible actions on the physical plane.
associative intellect? The Physical Science of to-day already
Physical Science itself, and not its learned
organ of smell. To be clever, in the sense of Physical
physical plane, is, in its essence, to have a peculiarly
Physical Science which has arisen by association of ideas is
out” on the physical plane. This may be said in an
ideas of chemical and physical laws, and the like. But it is
Physical Science bears witness to this fact. You may convince
lines, Goethe demanded quite another trend of Physical
it is working in the outer physical world.
physical world it is quite justified. This physical intellect
must be so, just as for the outer physical world physical
sky should not be interpreted in the sense of Physical
Science (Newtonian physics), as you will find it to-day in
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its course within the physical body. Thus, in truth, we may
evolve in it physical body. It is the invisible or
observe the mineral-physical world of stars above him; in
entity which clothes itself at birth with the physical body,
present in the physical world. Inasmuch as we have pointed to
(with the exception of the coarsest physical processes), the

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of the physical world which we perceive round about us through
to designate this physical-sensory world as MAYA, the great
physical-sensory reality of the external world.
physical-sensory world which surrounds man is not a reality, but
world, but that in this physical world, in everything he saw
physical permeated by the spiritual. The fountain did not only
external physical objects. The world has grown empty, it has lost
external physical phenomena of the world as something not
strong measure the capacity to perceive the gods in the physical
regard to the external physical-sensory reality, which was
the external, physical-sensory world, became our naturalistic
Orientals once perceived gods in the external physical world of
physical world, so that it became a Maya, but this divine essence
physical world no longer contained the gods. And our thought life
had to turn his gaze away from the physical world to another
physical world.
from the physical-sensory to the super-sensible. In the same
physical, it must gain inner reality in the life of thought,

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envisage, to begin with, his physical organization and his
thinking capacity counteracts. For this we need our physical and
etheric body. Without the physical and etheric body we could not
is concerned, the physical and etheric bodies become filled with
the physical and etheric bodies, as is normally the case, the
have to rely on the physical and etheric bodies, we may say: The
physical organ, but the astral body, perceives.
his physical body and his etheric body on the one hand, and his
physical and etheric body and the Ego organization and astral
hand, and the physical and etheric body on the other, so that the
speaking, at his side, but by eliminating his physical body he
meaning of human self-knowledge. In physical life this also
the lifeless or physical, the basis of life or the psychical, and
therefore have to seek the physical-bodily, the psychical, and
physics discovered since Goethe's time in the field of
modern chemistry, or modern physics, modern physiology, and so
to hear of chemists, physicists, physiologists, medical men
chemically, physically or physiologically. This would only rouse
Anthroposophist, also as a chemist, physiologist, physician,

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the world was a nebula, a kind of physical structure. Out of it
animals, etc. Again, in accordance with conceptions of physics,
imagine a spiritual essence in the physical at the beginning and
Today there are physicists who think that out there in the
also in history — it shines physically outside, and

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does not change, and he forms his concepts of physics without
entered man's physical-earthly part, the being of flesh and
divine essence transcending the physical world. Modern man called
… or whether you say: Man consists of physical body,

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previously determined. We see the tree grow out of what the physical
within us, but at first only builds up our physical body. It first
definite time of his life, refers only to his physical body. All he
tells us is that his physical body has been so many years evolving
physical body but remains stationary. It is a Mystery difficult to
Adam, that belongs to the physical body, etheric and astral body and
our physical body, to the Earth. This is not a mere physical event,
everlasting bringing to birth of the Divine Spiritual in the physical

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grow out of what forms the physical body for the earth, which was
life is connected with his physical body. He says nothing other than
that his physical body has been developing for so-and-so long since
development of the physical body. The “I” stays
clings to the physical body, etheric body, and astral body, this
higher self, when we surrender our physical body to the earth, it
is not a merely physical process. Something spiritual is also
in the physical, earthly human being.

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the physical substance required by the egg, but in this moisture lives
egg is still entirely physical, whereas the caterpillar already lives in
both physical and etheric, but this it finds difficult as it contains
caterpillar altogether isolates itself from the physical earth forces.
physical substance with which to spin. What will the creature do if it

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after the prevailing notions of to-day, be a physician)
the above-named ‘complex of Karmic forces’ plays. Physical
the astral together, or the physical and the astral
together, or the physical body and the Ego. In the most
physical body and especially the etheric body are
observe them even outwardly on the physical plane. The
gesture, posture and deportment in the physical body
we must also bear in mind the physical body. As to the physical
into the world. The kind of physical body we have depends on
physical body is developing, forces are working in (or rather,
about) the physical body — forces which come not
circumstances. Thus we may say: That which places our physical
body into life and works on through our physical body — that
determines our circumstances. Thus we may say: The physical
Physical body:

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of physical heredity — that which is entirely contained
in the physical line. For the external scientists of
seven-year periods. Broadly speaking, as you know, the physical
of the soul beyond the immediate and outward physical
that the only goal we have to follow is in the outer physical

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kingdoms which he then finds in his physical environment: the
Earth, only remembers his earthly life in the physical body.
physical body. The consequence, in other words, are
Many a thing done by humanity on the physical plane, if it be
establishing himself as a demonic being, even in the physical.
point of physical embodiment. That is to say, while the cosmos
the physical stars, so must we find the way of the Spirit, out

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appearance, outside the physical, sense-perceptible world, can be
looks out attentively with his physical eyes and his other senses at his
surroundings, he perceives the physical environment of the earth, and
only the physical-etheric processes of the body which occur within
sulphurising process in his physical-etheric being. The sulphur that
physical-etheric in man is thus glowed through at midsummer with
sulphur-process. It is not only the physically visible glow-worms

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taking this in the widest sense to connote a physical deposit,
spiritual-psychical-physical, which reveals itself to him in

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physical breathing, and by uniting themselves with it they would be
from below, so that breathing would be extinguished and physical
how the Luciferic force up above would like to suffocate physical
I have often said, the Great Physician in the evolution of mankind.

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in the way a physicist speaks of positive and negative, of potential

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Raphael, the great cosmic physician, can give to mankind. For
in Galen, those old physicians, there survived something of what is
In physical life, one person forgets more readily, or less readily,
come, if we have insight not only into the physical aspect of the

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physical and etheric body. But I have emphasised already during the last
Whereas in perceiving the outer physical world in a way fitted to our
to a certain point and must then return, so mere physical enjoyment
then outside the physical and etheric body. In ordinary life, ideas
asleep till waking in a state of longing for his physical body. Sleeping
sleep, develops longings for his physical body. These longings increase
his physical body. The longing for one's physical body becomes ever
Perceptions become dim because desire for the physical body pervades
develops this desire when outside his physical and etheric body, but
inner part of his physical and etheric body so that he reaches with
state, they did not entirely absent themselves from what lived physically
the physical body, they still lived with this physical body in the way
of the physical body with what otherwise lives outside the physical and
a laying hold involving desire of the physical body from without, nor
as an enjoyment of the physical body from within.
must remain united with the body which belongs to him during his physical
that he can really lay hold in a living way of that which in physical
gives the expectancy of physical death, the condition we are considering

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physical and etheric body. During the last few days I have
perceiving the outer physical world in a way fitted to our earth
must then return, so mere physical enjoyment must recede when it
the physical and etheric body. Ideas from ordinary life are then
asleep till waking in a state of longing for his physical body.
begins to sleep, develops longings for his physical body. These
more and more towards his physical body. The longing for ones
physical body becomes ever greater and greater in the state of
because desire for the physical body pervades the ego and astral
this desire when outside his physical and etheric body, but he
inner part of his physical and etheric body so that he reaches with
they did not entirely absent themselves from what lived physically
physical body, they still lived with this physical body in the way
paths of the physical body with what otherwise lives outside the
physical and etheric body during sleep, was called
hold of the physical body from without, nor as enjoyment of the
physical body from within.
physical incarnation on earth, remain united with it through those
physical existence is the symbol of death, and can unite himself
with that which gives the expectancy of physical death, the

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itself such ideas of a physical appearance, (sinnlichen
the standpoint of Demonology to that of Metaphysics. Whereas
People became Metaphysical when they no longer wanted to
Metaphysics. They united certain concepts with their own
longer looks to Metaphysical concepts when seeking the basis of
the metaphysical explanation given about the orderings of
space, as physics explain the law of Forces, Chemistry the
last phase of Demonology, Then appeared Metaphysics, —
Demonology, Metaphysics and Positivism. And one can say he took
threefold division is Theology, Metaphysics, and what he calls
Metaphysics is the Official, especially the legal Official. And
of Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
Metaphysics

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we strove to raise up for our ideal — over the physical

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quadrigemina — as the image of a certain, physical

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the Cosmos, to the spiritual and the physical in the Cosmic
we to-day call our physical environment, was the lowest portion
mountains and of the rivers. I live in the physical realm, but
this physical realm is the body of a spiritual realm. Around me

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physical bears within it, along with the etheric body, a much
and soul still to a great extent outside his physical and
physical body and my etheric body. He went through the world in
this experience of twofold-ness. He did not call his physical
downward with his physical and etheric bodies, had a connection
he feels the entry of natural substances into his physical
To-day man's experience in the physical body is of the
soul-and-spirit nature from his physical and etheric nature, he
not as built up from below by means of physical and etheric
physical world as in a vehicle of life — so did he
conceive of his physical-etheric nature. Until this is clearly
other hand, the physical-and-etheric into which substances of
the Earth and the Cosmos, physical and etheric
if I may so express it, sunk down into the physical and
this point in a physical existence that bore in it a strain of
power. Trouble of all kinds befell the inhabitants, physical
the physical body and etheric body, — which are mortal;
that modern physics describes. The Moon is, before all, the
Earth in different places; and not of the Earth in its physical
the descent of the Ego into the physical and etheric nature in

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of the Spiritual into the Physical in Nature, — were

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dominion, it was not only a physical impulse that came from
the North-West and so forth — but with the physical came
also moral impulses. The physical and the moral were one. This
present when man took cognisance of the physical world around
Alexander, on the day of whose birth the physical Ephesus had
the old physical Ephesus stand in men's memory as its centre,

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for man. I described them as the physical world; a transition world
earthly Devachan, earthly Spirit-land, — for the physical
Soul-world one were to come thence into the physical world. In
sublime event was being enacted in concrete physical reality,
though his head were a littler higher than his physical head
his physical organism. That is absolutely the experience of
will find that he works right into the physical man. Your
physical man makes a step forward through the reading of
physician. See
physical flames of fire flaring up on that night, we see the
fact that the physical is Maya, that we have to seek the truth
physically burning Goetheanum shall arise for us a spiritually

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of man and his constitution as physical man, we speak,
to consider the various substances in man's physical nature,
that which man receives by way of physical nourishment is only
serves to maintain his physical organism, or rather his whole
Now, to go beyond physical nourishment and include also
throughout the entire physical Cosmos in a state of very fine
classification and plan: man is composed of physical body,
about the physical body? How can we gain a true idea of it?
here on the Earth. And the physical body of man, although of
to these physical forces of the Earth, the forces that come
from the centre of the Earth. The physical body of the human
physical body and etheric body.
Suppose you stand there and ask, what is my physical body? The
physical body is the one that is subject to the forces that go
Here then you have your physical body and your etheric
can actually find certain places in Nature where the physical
with as a substance present in the physical Earth. So long as
the reproductive process, it is lifted out of the physical
forces that are the physical-central forces of the Earth. These
weak, and the physical forces that work from the centre of the
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this physical world, this word is, I verily believe, one of the
Earth in a physical body. Many and varied kinds of Gods were
below in the physical life of men. We can already describe how
ritual at the very time when it was taking place physically
over in Palestine. Men had knowledge of it not through physical
and more in the physical world. The external centres which were
man trod physical paths. In the Middle Ages it is
Rosicrucians were hidden from outer physical experience. Many a
outer physical eye of man could find them. None the less there
gentle light of the physical eye. Then it was possible to find
body which your physical eyes can see. The centre of the Earth
is your physical body.
keep the form which belongs to its own being. Your physical
dissolved in dust. The Earth has no power over your physical
of your physical body, it must dissolve it in to dust. Your
physical body is not of the Earth, it is of high spirituality.
of your physical body. Not to the Earth, but to the highest
physical body of yours belong. The Earth can destroy it, but
now, within this physical body dwells an etheric body. The day
will come when your physical body will be received by the Earth
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Ego and astral body, having left their physical and etheric
saw souls, who had left their physical and etheric bodies
world and return again into the physical world. Every
into the physical world and to live there as a practical,
paralysed in soul. Moreover, he would return to the physical
life in a physical body. Thus when you return into the physical
Hence you would be paralysed on your return into the physical
work, so to-day we are justified in hoping that when a physical

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which we call the astral body and Ego separate from the physical
is, that our physical and etheric bodies, “unjustly”
etheric and physical bodies as a kind of shell into which he
if the physical and etheric bodies were himself. But this they are
physical and etheric bodies as an instrument; but we cannot raise
regard our physical and etheric bodies. But in this epoch we have
illegally, by the physical and etheric bodies. That simply rests in
into the physical and etheric bodies, so to speak, and they bring
the physical body absorbs that consciousness, so that it appears as
if the physical body brought about our personality. Anyone who
thinks that his physical body brings about his personality is
inwardly, is somehow produced by the physical and etheric bodies;
whereas all the physical and etheric bodies do, is to radiate back
consciousness was united with his physical body. Of course, history
physical body; in olden times no man felt himself bound to his
physical body as the modern man does. In those pre-Christian times
bound up with his physical body. Man to-day gives himself over to a
Archangels and Archai, is because his physical body darkens them
individual person, am not bound to my physical or etheric bodies
physicist believes that this Nature is maintained by a conservation
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the so-called nothingness of the physical world.
acquired in the physical world. We must have different ideas
from those acquired in the physical world if we wish to enter
the concept of a connection during physical life between our
consciousness and the corresponding processes in our physical
in the physical world unless we can connect it with the
growth, only development in us as physical beings, we could
never be conscious beings in the physical world. In this
physical world what is represented in growth, in budding and
conscious life of spirit plays in the physical world, by
in the physical world as consciousness. Let us sketch
permeate the physical organic life only, no consciousness
soul must work upon the physical. In the physical to begin
awake, therefore, our soul-life destroys the physical
(I say expressly with the spiritual not the physical world)
physical life, lie at the foundation of memory, Were
physical consciously but would remain for ever
works in the physical body. But when through spiritual
miniature and imperceptibly in manes physical nature. We
physical body as instrument, we must observe how in autumn
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the Physical body, but by liberating the soul and spirit from
the physical instrument, so that, as soul and spirit they
our physical body in the waking state whenever we wish to
three worlds through the whole formation of our physical
which we encounter in the physical world. And if we consider
of the physical head, be clear that the formative forces of
of investigation. In the sphere of physical investigation,
part of the head from the physical instrument, and is able to
is correct to that which is correct in the physical-sensible
world. In the physical-sensible world, we first have correct
physical nature; for spirit lies at the basis of everything
merely to do with the physical-chemical process, carried out
physical world.
ourselves from the physical instrument of the head. I
because we are situated within the physical head), if we thus
such thoughts as we experience in the physical world, but we
our head. Instead of mathematics, logic metaphysics, we

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connection between the etheric and the physical bodies that he
as it were, closely united with the physical by a strong
strong impulse to project our will into the physical world,
body strongly united with the physical but also a powerfully
the physical world.
physical body, however, it no longer thrusts its forces into
the physical but retains them. This explains the transformation
expressed merely in the physical. It maintained the urge and
the magnetic union between his etheric and physical bodies.
external or merely physical events has not yet attained the
manifestation of the connection between physical and etheric
anyone possessing a compact connection between the physical and
it makes impressions on the physical body, they pass over
impressions are, of course, made upon the physical body, but
takes place when an impression is made on his physical body. If
etheric and physical bodies.
This relationship between the etheric and physical bodies was
etheric body, through the physical body to such a firm contact

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man consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
within the physical and etheric bodies but, during sleep, the
outside the physical and etheric bodies in sleep only in being
outside the physical and etheric head, they bring about a more
psychic with the physical in man if we wish to understand
fact that the nervous system of the physical organism is a
head organism. When we say that relative to his physical body,
waking life between his soul-spiritual and his organic-physical
essential point is that the physical body of an animal —
physician! Obviously, everything that is good also has its dark

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where the first potentialities of the physical body were
potentiality of our physical body to them, which still
potentiality for our physical body.
physical sciences. When men get beyond all this twaddle about
would get the right evolution of the physical world.

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with four strings — physical, etheric, astral bodies, and ego
the physical body and especially the etheric
and gestures of the physical being, and in the entire bearing
also on the physical plane. In accordance with other karmic
way; that is, what is manifested as the bearing of the physical
we must also consider the physical body. With it, what comes
his karma. Even the kind of physical body we have depends upon
which the physical body is especially developing, forces are
places our physical body here, in a sense, and works through
therefore, say: Physical body, creative of the life situation;

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strictly in a physical sense. External science cannot yet open
seven-year periods. We know that, in essence, the physical body
his physical life between birth and the fourteenth or sixteenth
external physical reality. On the other hand, the bourgeois
he expressed by saying that we are not the physicians, but
that outward physical realities are the only goal to be striven
physical realities without any one realizing that they are

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that the writings of the ancient physician Galen be sent him as
through his genius has meaning for the physical world. The fact
physical life was similar in these brothers. These things must
according to the physical line of heredity, the stream of
animals. Not only was the endeavor made to establish a physical
theologians and metaphysicians of our age pretend that man is

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to those of the animal, plant, and mineral in his physical
today, man remembers only his life in the physical body. The
to the physical body, bringing diseases and mortality and all
on the physical plane, when it is of such a nature as to
in the very physical entity. In constructing steam engines, the
demons are actually brought even into a physical object. That
way to the physical stars and into the cosmos by means of the

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possessed by this cleaving to the flesh, to the physical
belong to this nation in his physical body, but a force

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in which the modern physicist regards it — roughly
thus spoken of in physics is only one element of the whole
superstition to think as the modern physicist
the Greeks Helios. Then, third, there came the physical
expression of the Good and of Helios, the physical Sun. Thus,
entirely mechanistic and physical, wants to be deaf in face
What today from any experiment in physics is found as matter
force, the matter and force of which physicists speak, beyond
which all concepts in physics are governed. Something is
but these heavens are so physical that they too will vanish
another domain, what most modern physicists try to
do — to erect a barrier between physical science, on the
do with sex, there spiritual and physical are one, there they

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physical nature, we should have to show him thus: Head part
formation whereas the head itself is an old physical
formation, a physical form-being. For the head, what is
the most part inside the physical head. It is therefore
separated most easily from the physical head, going out and
physical.
other diagram of waking man saying: when physical man is
head-man, as physical form, is something that is not man
his most recent spiritual member, in his physical head, he
other member of the human physical body. Man may count
physical sense but in a spiritual sense in a certain way it

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out there by the physical senses as a shining sphere in
of the spiritual-Sun, the Good. But as the physical sun
the matter really stands with regard to the physical
all our physical representations of the world, in what is
anyone accepts when taking as his authority modern physics,
astrophysics, whatever you like to call it. If he were able
to travel to the place where the physicist places the sun, on
he had arrived inside the space that the physicist considers
gas or something of the kind. This is what the physicist
physicist actually pictures — a ball of glowing gas or
cannot hold water in face of true physical perception that is
right inside, where the physicist supposes the sun to be, we
the physical sun is supposed to be there is nothing at all,
physical man, is a being who materially fills a certain
need our physical brain for our life of soul; we need it only
to lay hold of our soul-life, physically to lay hold of it.
I want to draw, let us say, physical man, I could best
if the physical man is described this is done by saying that
this physical man consists of lungs, heart, liver, gall and
so on; This is done in physical anatomy, this is done in
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more and more dependent on the physical body with its
civilisation and education, they were perhaps more physically

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say that this is the time when we descended to physical life
children have just descended to the physical world, whereas
world while we were already living in the physical world.

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of the rest of the body too also disappear, but the physical substance
very few powers left over for the work of transforming the physical

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and the soul permeate the physical and the etheric body. Now
here the physical and etheric bodies lying on the bed, and the
should be so drawn that if the physical organs and the
the Ego and the soul are outside the physical and the etheric
processes in the etheric body and in the physical body. Yet
that the physical part of his physical organism, the psychic
viewed the world, quite physically. The Greek did not see the
called, are spirits which have acquired a sensory-physical
gods descended deeper into the human physical form, and man is

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lie at the foundation of everything physical, of the solid
substances or of the physical phenomena which we can perceive
our astral body are within our physical body. I have already
unfolds its physical part to the utmost. And it is fully awake
external physical development. The vegetable kingdom is then
earth? Those who only rely upon their physical senses and upon
the intellect which they think forms part of the physical
through the fact that the human being only uses his physical
lectures), for we use above all our physical body. But a time
will come when we shall not only use the physical body, but
mentality, but if we look upon the external physical world as a

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have to distinguish in him the physical organism. We have this physical
is formed by physical and etheric organism we have joined the astral
side the physical and etheric organism are connected more closely and
other side physical and etheric organism. So that the astral and etheric
or physical and etheric organism.
it might look as if the effect on the physical organism is that which
when we are seeing, the physical eye, (diagram, bright) but everything
that goes on in the physical eye is only something mediating. In reality,
physical organism of man and has in itself parts that are solid. You
— and the astral body and then from inside the physical and etheric
body — the physical born from the mineral parts of human nature
physical and etheric bodies but as physical body in the mineral constituents
under the impulse of the physical body and on the waves of the living
It is a faithful impression of the physical, etheric, even of the astral
eye a very fine picture wants to form; up to a physical shaping of forms
of man which are first the physical carrier of what has been grasped,
Then again, the physical matter is gone, it must last up to the 28th
the etheric and physical organism, when the astral forces quiver through
have to permeate first the etheric and physical organism in the right
then you have, for example a part of physical and etheric man, which
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the human being, physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego are
by the gall from the physical side — but in a way that was connected
too much respect to the physical quality of the spleen and that one

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we did not look to the physical human body. One did not think of that
body of man. One did not pay attention to the physical body; instead
picture of the human ether body. One did not only see the physical human
body in those old times, but one saw the physical human body luminous,
to rely on the mere physical world, including the remaining human cultural
for processes of healing, received a physical character. One looked
at the physical body.
more and more only at the physical body of man. The older physical medicine
18 and 19th centuries. The old physical medicine always had traditions,
old principles and had only carried them over into the physical. In
a certain way the physical human organism still continued to be seen
begin to observe more and more merely the physical human body and cease
it completely. One knew that the human physical organism “is not
physicians, when one regarded every digestion as a partial process of
among Arabian physicians, a point of view which is altogether —
once more by an example. Let us assume that a physician of today is
How does the physician today make a diagnosis?
The physician of today comes

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interrelationship between the physical and super-physical
being is divided into physical body, etheric body, astral
seventh year, to the change of teeth, the physical body comes
his physical body, then in the way the child behaves you will
get an idea of what one understands by “physical
indeed, what is beginning to free itself from the physical
concrete, of the physical, that we experience the change in

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out of knowledge of the relation between physical and the
superphysical worlds, cultivate a deeper understanding for
consider, you have to do it not just with physical human
beings walking about on the physical earth, but with men

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now has only a physical horizon. You are already judging something in

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a question of spiritual events that lie at the basis of the physical
attention to how this is much the same as refusing on the physical plane
physical plane.
world ground him just as rhynical men with his physical senses, sees
around him a physical world. This is familiar even among those who believe
purely general belief. But it forbids him to get as far as superphysical
faculties, that is, faculties leading into the super-physical world
by which man comes to terms with the things of the physical plane that
soul no longer reflects with the intellect or even finds any physical

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this Imagination into words) actually so long as they are in a physical
nose in our physical men, the etheric nose not being sufficiently developed.
the world from which he came on entering physical existence through
physical realm. Why should I have done this? Why should I not have remained
but where are they? Then we go into the physical world and perceive
in which we were before having to enter physical life.
to s world from which it is banished. And in his outer physical form
in his physical form, is dried up. For what belongs to animal and man
animals and men—as far as men's physical forms are concerned—are
we pursue it through birth and find it on the physical earth in the
they are what we have been expecting. Finding animals on the physical
in our age of consciousness, all that men perceive here in the physical
this physical world. Again, you can also perceive in the bodies of animals
rest your back, but then, just because you are physically at rest, you
neither two men (I mean physical men) nor two things (physical things)

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we sleep we leave the physical body and the etheric body lying in the
In sleep, with our ego and astral body we are outside the physical body—no,
with the instrument of the physical body. In actual fact a tremendously
physical body and its organs. The life during the state of sleep is
and plunge down into our physical body and etheric body. We are still
relation of our soul and spirit to our physical and etheric?
sun beings. Therefore as with our external physical eyes we have to
while here on the physical earth.
everywhere in the external physical world they have analogies through
of our physical environment can be particularly well understood. It
observe through the physical senses, everything that allows of investigation
the threshold of physical consciousness.
Science, that is to say, the science of the superphysical, since all
superphysical nature. (cf. Z-234)
There is just one thing here in the physical world in the way of sensations,
way. This is only found in a limited form here in the physical world,
as physical men on the physical earth we should by no means be able
way and in another way indeed it must happen. As physical men we should
will have arrived, not indeed where physical man is concerned but with
it is not only physical sound speaking but the divine spiritual being
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a physical event of the physical world. But only recently I have pointed
remain still. And why? It is because by falling down, as the physicist

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whom physically they have been permitted to be so closely connected
world as a man through his eyes and ears knows about the physical world
in the physical course of earthly evolution that is incomprehensible
which enables the bridge to be built from the kingdom of the physical
world of the senses to the kingdom of the superphysical; and between

Title: The Building at Dornach (Bn/GA 289): Lecture II: Bau Lecture II
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in the eye, and apparently no fan but if one could add to the physical
organic beings is developed physically. Just in the same way as (see
dotted line, so the human eye in its simplicity, in its physical; simplicity
simple physical out of the complicated etheric.
we with the eye of the soul follow the physical eye — where we

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as in one living being, the spiritual, the psychic and the physical.
apprehended by the play of the psychic, and the physical, that shows
extent the physical substantiality. It is, of course, the case that
spiritual above, the physical below. In that which should develop in
physically and physiologically as also in his soul and spirit.
a physical point of view, man is not that simple growing being that
viewed physiologically, from the point of view of the physical body.
importance even for the study of human physical organism, if we discarded
biological lines if we rightly conceive of man in his physical form
one observes the physical body. Hence also, the strongly-marked asymmetry
in the 6th and specially the 7th post-Atlantean period where physical

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture I: The Problem of Faust
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ancient art of healing, not only the healing of physical
physical body through which the external deed is
Deed.......................Physical Body
and the physical body are working together in him, through

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture II: The Romantic Walpurgis-Night
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naturally the physical body of those who make this journey
physical life. Faust has to go back into his physical body.
into his physical body, that is, while he is not physically
belonging to his physical existence. Hence, what Faust says
outside it. When a man is outside his physical body, as Faust
out of the body. Mephistopheles indeed has no physical body,
physical body; Will-o'-the-wisps are elemental beings who
naturally, since it is solid, cannot take on the physical

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture III: Goethe's Feeling for the Concrete.
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to produce a being that, without a physical body, develop the
purely spiritual and the physical; for he himself has no
physical body but a favorable moment originates from physical
physical world so that Helen can then enter it. And for all
physical out of the eternal spiritual and Helen, with whom
of nature, and now take into himself the physical body unites
the physical plane, all that we find her in the third Act of
old in the physical world, so one grows young when one is
man has his physical body, his etheric body, his astral body
and his ego. The animal has its physical body, etheric body
physico-chemical processes whereby the foodstuffs are

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IV: Faust and the "Mothers"
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spiritual world immediately bordering on our physical
-physical one arises, there is a borderland as it were, a
Mephistopheles, the force of evil working into the physical,
what is physical and material with what is not. Picture to
yourselves the coming into physical existence of the human
is consummated. The man who is about to become physical
inthe woman all the forces that lead to the physical human
part of the cosmos that belongs to the physical but to the
incarnation into a physical body and ends with physical
forces that are physical are but the shadow, the image, of
what is spiritual. Everything physical is a mere picture of
this. If you do not take simply its outward, gross physical
has no Physical existence. And all that is Moon-impulse is
together yourselves out of any elementary book on physics.
has nothing to do with the physical. Goethe, however, wanted

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture V: Faust and the Problem of Evil
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nothing left of him but the outer physical body. Now there

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VI: The Helena Saga and the Riddle of Freedom
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more physical form in the great Atlan Lean epoch. Notably in

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VII: Some Spiritual-Scientific Observations
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evolution of man as a physical-temporal being could not have
physical development between birth and death if he were only
the physical world at the end of his twenties. For these
path of that activity which takes place on the physical
of the living and weaving from which the physically visible
them physical conditions describing them rather differently,
a solid physical condition, the earthly; what has a fluid
physical condition, water; what has such a physical condition
mean the physical vapour or the mist we have now, but this
that world in our physical body, we could not breathe in that
asleep and waking. With our physical body we could not
man may take his physical body into this world, for he could
— the Sun-world was even so formed as a physical world that
however, that were formerly physically present, just as now
our world is physically present, can only be experienced
physical animal-forms of today, but spiritual elemental
physical nature on earth, the pygmies and the dactyls are
for it is all that surrounds us on the physical earth. But

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night
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senses around him, how mountain ranges and such physical
do that certainly today develop a physical existence, but
will enter as physical man in the future — to which he
together. Physicists and physiologists wonder why it is we
those in nature that cannot fit into the physical

Title: Problem of Faust: Lecture IX: Goethe's Life of the Soul from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science
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conception of physics. That, however, is of no consequence.
What physics does not recognize today, my dear firends, the
physics of tomorrow will find itself obliged to accept. In
reality, present day physics is not yet ripe for Goethe's
naturally, must appear to modern physics both primitive and
Foolish. He studied this Newtonian physics, this Newtonian
he could do nothing with it. This Newtonian physics serves
for a materialistic physical representation, but is useless
appearance of colors from the point of view of physics. do,
(This would, as has been said, appear to the modern physicist
his whole outlook on physics, that is to say, on inanimate,
of physics. And in the large Weimar edition, in the volume
physical life, but the matter is not then taken up into the
him when in his physical body. Now when, after a few days, he
in spite of his keeping to the phenomenal and physically

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sought simply through the external physical world, to which
the senses and the physical understanding are directed, is no
Wagner is capable of aspiring with ideally conceived physical
physical world is thought out to the highest point of
concerned with in man stands before us in external, physical
look at man simply as a figure standing on the physical earth
who stood, physically perceptible, before him. He was told:
physical body, has developed on the physical plane to a very
in the physical body. Read, for instance, what is given
force-impulses in the whole connection of a physical human
physical germination? He uses the microscope; he examines the
how the physical world is set beside the world entered when
Dorides set beside the physical sailor boys. They have found
At the same time he delicately indicates how physical world
one wished to hold fast what welds together the physical and

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external nature, the physical understanding was able to put
he wished to represent what a man, here in the physical
physical life, can never gain knowledge and comprehension of
knowledge acquired outside the instrument of the physical
the other knowledge dealing with the physical world, can only
the concepts of physical understanding. But he had no wish,
obtained in this respect in the physical world. He wanted to
in his physical life, he can so transform it that it seizes
experience a physical, barely perceptible difference in the
the Kabiri. Here in the physical world is accomplished
physical becoming, but this has its counterpart in the sphere
physical human being can arise. It must first be fertilised;
only then can there be a physical human being. And when we
think with physical understanding alone, in these thoughts
possible to grasp with out physical understanding, must be
fertilised by knowledge gained outside the physical body.
Half the riddle on man is hidden from the mere physical power
the waves; and all the physicist can say is that moonlight is
little; and the physicist experiences nothing of what is
present in man when, in the physical sense, the mystery of
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his life between birth and death in the physical body. I
the physical body, between birth and death, we have not only
physical body he still only goes a certain distance towards
man does what he pleases on the physical plane, making God
repose of being is attained in the physical sphere by the
the physical world, we contract into our individual skins;
born, over and over again on the physical plane, and being
thus born physically on the physical plane, he had not been
spiritual world. We slip into our physical head and cannot
through conception and birth for physical existence. In this
physical existence we meet with what, out of this physical
existence, is given us as our physical body. Every evening we
our physical body. Then we can feel how, coming in from
the higher hierarchies, just as here the physical body comes
to bring deep down into our physical body; then we should be
what we are able to reach only by the physical eye, the
physical ear, through physical sound and physical touch,
to hear physical sound in the ear instead of cosmic sound,
his Homunculus, with his physical eyes actually only

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume III: Lecture I
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— for instance that man has a physical body, an etheric

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 1
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physicians, including those who are training to be real physicians,
the theologians and on the part of the physicians what is now going to be
theologians are to become physicians, or that the physicians are to
the other hand, physicians must be clearly aware of the position they
clearly that physicians, in addition to the cultivation of their
the other hand, physicians must develop a special conception of their
to the priest, the Mercury staff to the physician. And only through
physician remaining physician and priest remaining priest, and the
anthroposophical physician. But the following must also become an
established procedure: that physicians who want to work with the same
someone will be acknowledged as a physician if the requirements of
healers who are not physicians. Those who are here today (with a very
specifically medical. Or perhaps I should ask, have any physicians
examines how the pastor has to relate to the physician in
want to set in motion, whether physical or spiritual or pertaining to
medicine. If it's a physical substance, its effect will be that a
person in the same way that physical-chemical forces are active in
Physical-chemical
consciousness. Thus a physician has to work fundamentally with the
intervening as physician, as therapist, directly in the ordering of
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the mutual concerns of priest and physician, we should look
the pathological field. These phenomena require a physician's
the physical organism in the first seven years of human life are the
human being stands before us in a physical body, which has a long
today's anatomy and physiology. For the human physical body as it is
the physical body — which makes the physical body
extraordinarily complicated. Only its purely mineral and physical
The physical human
physical body, upon the breathing and blood circulation, we are
the ego organization penetrates the human physical body. You can see
before us in physical, etheric and astral bodies, and an ego
organization are in close connection. In sleep the physical body and
etheric body and physical body. For instance, we can have: physical
that the physical body and etheric body are in some kind of normal
with their ego and astral body both outside their physical and
life. You may meet them in your vocation as physician or as priest
them in endless variety, for instance, in a town. Today the physician
diagnosis: psychopathological impairment. To modern physicians that
do so. Thus you can encounter such a person if you are a physician,
physical and etheric bodies still have their normal connection. But
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 3
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observed such as occur with pain originating in the physical and
penetrating the physical and etheric bodies as deeply as they
same time experience in their etheric and physical bodies continues
the same time a separate experience of the etheric and physical
raised somewhat out of the physical body; at the same time the
physical body carries on its processes separately. Something special
certain sense, against the physical organization. The conscious
the etheric body; in the etheric body it pushes into the physical
body in every direction, to all sides. The physical body pushes back,
and the pushing back, the repulsion by the physical body, is your
astral body, and etheric body take hold of the physical body from
quite another direction than would normally be the case. The physical
world into the physical body, three weeks after conception. This
etheric body is connected with the physical body. But in this case
being takes possession of a physical body, but now the procedure is
more complicated, possessing this physical body from quite another
physical body and the physical body repels it. A physical body cannot
physical body exerts opposition, and this causes pain. It pushes away
experience of the third stage. The physical body exerts resistance
perception and ordinary thinking grasp hold of the physical world.
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irresponsibility as the physician and the priest must know them.
beings, with physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego
have their physical organism. The most striking phenomenon in the
physical organism is that in the first period of life they have what
only keep the physical substance they received at birth until the
change of teeth. They are constantly stripping that physical material
physical substance and replaces it. The truth is near to that, but
older one becomes, the more one retains of old physical substance. A
strip away all the physical substance they had when they were born,
seven the physical body has been completely renewed, even to the
come from parents and grandparents. The physical body of those first
years of etheric body, astral body, and ego) fashions a new physical
participate very little. The etheric body forms a new physical human
from those found here in the physical world. We come out of that
world into the physical world and continue our life in a physical
body that we receive. Now in this physical world the same forces work
over, veiled, by the physical material of the tree. Everywhere in the
physical world in which we live between birth and death, spiritual
forces are active behind the sense-perceptible physical entities. We
physical world of the continuing spiritual activity. This awareness
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 5
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who show certain aspects of behavior that to a physician may seem to
physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
it to enter the physical and etheric bodies completely, and this
very far — really requires the sensitivity of a physician who
variations that you meet in life, which the physician especially
situations where physician and priest will have to confer with the
physical and etheric bodies — again in the waking state. Then
astral body, and etheric body into the physical organism, and the
physical organism is not able to receive them into its single organs.
organs, it takes hold of the physical organism. And conditions appear
that always appear when a physical or etheric organ is flooded by the
could be called a proper saturation of the physical body by the
etheric and astral bodies. Something is left over in the physical
wanting to seize a physical organ. In the former situation there was
sense world. In this case there is a reaching inward to a physical
the physical organism, which then succeeds in drawing the etheric
are drawn down into the physical body. Instead of receiving visions
the physical body has become even weaker, along with all the other
in the physical body. With such a person it now comes about, not that
ego, astral, and etheric body are pulled in by the physical body, but
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Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 6
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If physicians want to
need to stand within the spiritual world and look at this physical
true cause when a physical illness appeared. This idea was carried
death, and could thus examine the physical organism. They were
perfect physical organism doesn't sin. A person sins if there is some
is about ordinary physical human life into which elemental spiritual
physical body. For in the physical organization of the head we have
the after-effect of the previous earth-life; in the physical
dioxide. Breathing irregularities — from a physical point of
their physical-etheric organism; they sink down into their physical
sin comes from illness, and that there are physical substances and
in the work of physical healing, to add words that will make the
longer bound merely to a physical healing process, seeking the why
and the wherefore of physical healing alone, for they will perceive
this or with that symptom. You will see that this extends to physical
these things apply to physical illnesses. You will come to this if
that is, of physical and spiritual life — then if one needs to
convalescents, their physical healing will not be complete without
physicians also understand these things, if they recognize karma
medicine is first being presented to priests and physicians within

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its present form, physical-etheric body and soul-and-spirit are
interwoven. Present earth processes reach into the physical-etheric
physical-chemical processes of outer nature, that is, of nature
just as these chemical processes occur in a physics or chemistry
in the field of external chemical, of mechanical or physical
nature and a spiritual nature, and do not have just a physical
organism with physical processes that can be investigated externally
science, we proceed further to examine how physical life is connected
research they are able to do in this field with physical means, and
physical organism; the macrocosmic astrality is all the more active
differences in warmth. To physicists this makes no sense, because
follow the physical, physiological processes of the eye to the nerve,
firm ground for both priest and physician in connection with
activity gradually becomes purely physical, becomes altogether a
metabolic activity of the physical body — which is a modified
inhalation with what the physical body does is the actual metabolic
entire process as it is reflected in our physical body. Take
that happens along the nerve paths. They are the external, physical
taken in through the breathing; it manifests in physical reflection
from outside, from below. We find the physical projection of this in
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body and ego without any connection to the etheric and physical
etheric body but is not yet able to take hold of the physical body;
only has that faculty when down in the physical body in normal life
if one takes conscious hold of the physical body and begins to live
humankind sees the sun, for instance, in its physical form, and the
a physical body, and has actually taken hold of it in its spiritual
now one takes hold of the physical body, one enters into the spirit
they stream in into something physical, which then appears as merely
a physical attribute in the world of color, tone, warmth. And at the
accustomed and take hold of the physical body in its periphery, the
into us lovingly if we wish it; it is what we know in physical life
everything physical to germinate and sprout and grow, everything that
of the physical body in the other direction, in the direction of the
taken hold of the physical body and are engrossed in the lymph-blood
When we look at ourselves in an ordinary mirror, that is the physical
otherwise go out takes hold of physical matter in the human body.
What otherwise is a mere image now takes on physical form. For this
is formed, a physical world arises within the human being that must
that is, the physical formation. When they are less strong, they do
not enter into physical matter but stay in the direction of the
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physical body and etheric body are by themselves; the astral body and
ego are also by themselves. Turning first to the physical and etheric
must play themselves out. The physical body has to do with physical
processes. Physical processes take their course outside in the
at all suited to the constitution of the human physical body. And yet
physical processes in the same way that the mineral kingdom is. We
physically active forces and substances, but this is something that
really cannot be. That is why processes that go on in the physical
true situation without prejudice. Physical processes in the human
physical body can only be healthful when the ego and astral
organization are down in the physical body, as is the normal
process is still always going on in the physical body; it must be
sides! On one side, in the sleep condition of the human physical and
sleep in the human physical and etheric bodies, we find the
deeply enough into their physical and etheric bodies — which is
the outer world. Let us start from the human physical body
we have processes in the human physical body from which the ego is
have on the one hand within the processes of the human physical body
assume that we observe in some person's physical body a process that
the physical body of the sick person. We have to find the
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illnesses and bodily illnesses, and the physician and priest must be
something that is beyond physical-material events? They use exactly
physicians work so that creative impulses can now flow into the
human and the animal. The essential nature of the human physical body
25,920 years: in that span of time the nature of our physical body is
then you can begin to understand the present human physical body with
the ego. Just as we must grasp the connection of our physical body to
ego is ruled by the breath. And the life of our physical body lies
25,920 years. The activity that takes place in our physical body in
rhythms. Our human life is also enclosed within physical-etheric body
human life on earth lies between physical body-etheric body and
as physical human beings we breathe our astral body and ego out. When
element, while with our physical breath we breathe in oxygen. With
physician's or a priest's standpoint. But a true view of the world
beings on the earth between our ego and our physical body, between
relation to the day. What do we relate to with our physical body? How
do we relate physically to the Platonic year? There we relate to

Title: Pastoral Medicine: Lecture 11
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worlds into the physical-earth world through conception and birth,
able to form a physical human body. We have described how this
worlds into the world of the physical senses. But there was a
with the physical body in the way that was originally intended by the
harmony between soul-and-spirit and physical body in earthly humans,
physical-earth world than they were originally meant to. Although
mysteries united the professions of physician and priest, both of
Usually in olden times physician and priest were united in one
earth had been physicians or priests. The first need of every human
rebirth. And these first steps had to be shown to them by a physician
given to what today would be called physical conditions. That is, the
element. Modern physicists deny all this. For them these four
only “real” in the coarse, tangible physical world. And
particular importance to an ancient physician whether something was
exposed to weather conditions. The ancient physicians laid great
soul-spiritual entity enters too deeply into the physical and etheric
entity in the physical-etheric organism. There is, then, this
into the physical organism than they should in ordinary waking life,
physical-etheric organism do we live in the natural world. The moment
we descend too deeply, too intensely into physical corporeality, we
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this course be mainly for real theologians and real physicians,
including those who are training to be real physicians. And both the
theologians and the physicians must understand what is now going to
theologians are to become physicians, or that the physicians are to
the other hand, physicians must be clearly aware of the position they
clearly that physicians, in addition to the cultivation of their
the other hand, physicians must develop a special conception of their
to the priest, the Mercury staff to the physician. And only through
physician remaining physician and priest remaining priest, and the
anthroposophical physician. But the following must also become an
established procedure: that physicians who want to work with the same
someone will be acknowledged as a physician if the requirements of
healers who are not physicians. Those who are here today (with a very
specifically medical. Or perhaps I should ask, have any physicians
examines how the pastor has to relate to the physician in
want to set in motion, whether physical or spiritual or pertaining to
medicine. If it's a physical substance, its effect will be that a
person in the same way that physical-chemical forces are active in
Physical-chemical
consciousness. Thus a physician has to work fundamentally with the
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CONSIDER the mutual concerns of priest and physician, we should look
the pathological field. These phenomena require a physician's
the physical organism in the first seven years of human life are the
human being stands before us in a physical body, which has a long
today's anatomy and physiology. For the human physical body as it is
the physical body — which makes the physical body
extraordinarily complicated. Only its purely mineral and physical
The physical human
physical body, upon the breathing and blood circulation, we are
the ego organization penetrates the human physical body. You can see
before us in physical, etheric and astral bodies, and an ego
organization are in close connection. In sleep the physical body and
etheric body and physical body. For instance, we can have: physical
that the physical body and etheric body are in some kind of normal
with their ego and astral body both outside their physical and
life. You may meet them in your vocation as physician or as priest
them in endless variety, for instance, in a town. Today the physician
diagnosis: psychopathological impairment. To modern physicians that
do so. Thus you can encounter such a person if you are a physician,
physical and etheric bodies still have their normal connection. But
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observed such as occur with pain originating in the physical and
penetrating the physical and etheric bodies as deeply as they
same time experience in their etheric and physical bodies continues
the same time a separate experience of the etheric and physical
raised somewhat out of the physical body; at the same time the
physical body carries on its processes separately. Something special
certain sense, against the physical organization. The conscious
the etheric body; in the etheric body it pushes into the physical
body in every direction, to all sides. The physical body pushes back,
and the pushing back, the repulsion by the physical body, is your
astral body, and etheric body take hold of the physical body from
quite another direction than would normally be the case. The physical
world into the physical body, three weeks after conception. This
etheric body is connected with the physical body. But in this case
being takes possession of a physical body, but now the procedure is
more complicated, possessing this physical body from quite another
physical body and the physical body repels it. A physical body cannot
physical body exerts opposition, and this causes pain. It pushes away
experience of the third stage. The physical body exerts resistance
perception and ordinary thinking grasp hold of the physical world.
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irresponsibility as the physician and the priest must know them.
beings, with physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego
have their physical organism. The most striking phenomenon in the
physical organism is that in the first period of life they have what
only keep the physical substance they received at birth until the
change of teeth. They are constantly stripping that physical material
physical substance and replaces it. The truth is near to that, but
older one becomes, the more one retains of old physical substance. A
strip away all the physical substance they had when they were born,
seven the physical body has been completely renewed, even to the
come from parents and grandparents. The physical body of those first
years of etheric body, astral body, and ego) fashions a new physical
participate very little. The etheric body forms a new physical human
from those found here in the physical world. We come out of that
world into the physical world and continue our life in a physical
body that we receive. Now in this physical world the same forces work
over, veiled, by the physical material of the tree. Everywhere in the
physical world in which we live between birth and death, spiritual
forces are active behind the sense-perceptible physical entities. We
physical world of the continuing spiritual activity. This awareness
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who show certain aspects of behavior that to a physician may seem to
physical-etheric organism. This is in the waking state. What is the
it to enter the physical and etheric bodies completely, and this
very far — really requires the sensitivity of a physician who
variations that you meet in life, which the physician especially
situations where physician and priest will have to confer with the
physical and etheric bodies — again in the waking state. Then
astral body, and etheric body into the physical organism, and the
physical organism is not able to receive them into its single organs.
organs, it takes hold of the physical organism. And conditions appear
that always appear when a physical or etheric organ is flooded by the
could be called a proper saturation of the physical body by the
etheric and astral bodies. Something is left over in the physical
wanting to seize a physical organ. In the former situation there was
sense world. In this case there is a reaching inward to a physical
the physical organism, which then succeeds in drawing the etheric
are drawn down into the physical body. Instead of receiving visions
the physical body has become even weaker, along with all the other
in the physical body. With such a person it now comes about, not that
ego, astral, and etheric body are pulled in by the physical body, but
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If physicians want to
need to stand within the spiritual world and look at this physical
true cause when a physical illness appeared. This idea was carried
death, and could thus examine the physical organism. They were
perfect physical organism doesn't sin. A person sins if there is some
is about ordinary physical human life into which elemental spiritual
physical body. For in the physical organization of the head we have
the after-effect of the previous earth-life; in the physical
dioxide. Breathing irregularities — from a physical point of
their physical-etheric organism; they sink down into their physical
sin comes from illness, and that there are physical substances and
in the work of physical healing, to add words that will make the
longer bound merely to a physical healing process, seeking the why
and the wherefore of physical healing alone, for they will perceive
this or with that symptom. You will see that this extends to physical
these things apply to physical illnesses. You will come to this if
that is, of physical and spiritual life — then if one needs to
convalescents, their physical healing will not be complete without
physicians also understand these things, if they recognize karma
medicine is first being presented to priests and physicians within

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its present form, physical-etheric body and soul-and-spirit are
interwoven. Present earth processes reach into the physical-etheric
physical-chemical processes of outer nature, that is, of nature
just as these chemical processes occur in a physics or chemistry
in the field of external chemical, of mechanical or physical
nature and a spiritual nature, and do not have just a physical
organism with physical processes that can be investigated externally
science, we proceed further to examine how physical life is connected
research they are able to do in this field with physical means, and
physical organism; the macrocosmic astrality is all the more active
differences in warmth. To physicists this makes no sense, because
follow the physical, physiological processes of the eye to the nerve,
firm ground for both priest and physician in connection with
activity gradually becomes purely physical, becomes altogether a
metabolic activity of the physical body — which is a modified
inhalation with what the physical body does is the actual metabolic
entire process as it is reflected in our physical body. Take
that happens along the nerve paths. They are the external, physical
taken in through the breathing; it manifests in physical reflection
from outside, from below. We find the physical projection of this in
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body and ego without any connection to the etheric and physical
etheric body but is not yet able to take hold of the physical body;
only has that faculty when down in the physical body in normal life
if one takes conscious hold of the physical body and begins to live
humankind sees the sun, for instance, in its physical form, and the
a physical body, and has actually taken hold of it in its spiritual
now one takes hold of the physical body, one enters into the spirit
they stream in into something physical, which then appears as merely
a physical attribute in the world of color, tone, warmth. And at the
accustomed and take hold of the physical body in its periphery, the
into us lovingly if we wish it; it is what we know in physical life
everything physical to germinate and sprout and grow, everything that
of the physical body in the other direction, in the direction of the
taken hold of the physical body and are engrossed in the lymph-blood
When we look at ourselves in an ordinary mirror, that is the physical
otherwise go out takes hold of physical matter in the human body.
What otherwise is a mere image now takes on physical form. For this
is formed, a physical world arises within the human being that must
that is, the physical formation. When they are less strong, they do
not enter into physical matter but stay in the direction of the
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physical body and etheric body are by themselves; the astral body and
ego are also by themselves. Turning first to the physical and etheric
must play themselves out. The physical body has to do with physical
processes. Physical processes take their course outside in the
at all suited to the constitution of the human physical body. And yet
physical processes in the same way that the mineral kingdom is. We
physically active forces and substances, but this is something that
really cannot be. That is why processes that go on in the physical
true situation without prejudice. Physical processes in the human
physical body can only be healthful when the ego and astral
organization are down in the physical body, as is the normal
process is still always going on in the physical body; it must be
sides! On one side, in the sleep condition of the human physical and
sleep in the human physical and etheric bodies, we find the
deeply enough into their physical and etheric bodies — which is
the outer world. Let us start from the human physical body and
have processes in the human physical body from which the ego is
have on the one hand within the processes of the human physical body
assume that we observe in some person's physical body a process that
the physical body of the sick person. We have to find the
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illnesses and bodily illnesses, and the physician and priest must be
something that is beyond physical-material events? They use exactly
physicians work so that creative impulses can now flow into the
human and the animal. The essential nature of the human physical body
25,920 years: in that span of time the nature of our physical body is
then you can begin to understand the present human physical body with
the ego. Just as we must grasp the connection of our physical body to
ego is ruled by the breath. And the life of our physical body lies
25,920 years. The activity that takes place in our physical body in
rhythms. Our human life is also enclosed within physical-etheric body
human life on earth lies between physical body-etheric body and
as physical human beings we breathe our astral body and ego out. When
element, while with our physical breath we breathe in oxygen. With
physician's or a priest's standpoint. But a true view of the world
beings on the earth between our ego and our physical body, between
relation to the day. What do we relate to with our physical body? How
do we relate physically to the Platonic year? There we relate to

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worlds into the physical-earth world through conception and birth,
able to form a physical human body. We have described how this
worlds into the world of the physical senses. But there was a
with the physical body in the way that was originally intended by the
harmony between soul-and-spirit and physical body in earthly humans,
physical-earth world than they were originally meant to. Although
mysteries united the professions of physician and priest, both of
Usually in olden times physician and priest were united in one
earth had been physicians or priests. The first need of every human
rebirth. And these first steps had to be shown to them by a physician
given to what today would be called physical conditions. That is, the
element. Modern physicists deny all this. For them these four
only “real” in the coarse, tangible physical world. And
particular importance to an ancient physician whether something was
exposed to weather conditions. The ancient physicians laid great
soul-spiritual entity enters too deeply into the physical and etheric
entity in the physical-etheric organism. There is, then, this
into the physical organism than they should in ordinary waking life,
physical-etheric organism do we live in the natural world. The moment
we descend too deeply, too intensely into physical corporeality, we
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All that came to his notice in this way in the physical
to an end in the physical sense, Paul [was] still an antagonist of
evidence of the physical senses, but who could be convinced only by a
remained capable of organic physical development until an advanced
physical earthly life for just so long as the duration of the span of
life which ran in a parallelism between the physical organisation and
As physical man, Paul was of about the same age as Christ Jesus
soul-and-spirit development and physical development was not
the spiritual in the physical things all around him, he cannot have a
purely physical vision of the earth. Christ will come again to you,

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physical earth. He knew that he was born out of the divine and
mere vision of the physical human being living on earth. In olden
immediately perceptible in this physical frame, a being who belongs to
not bound to physical matter was able to work in Paul only because he
in his physical being, man is only an image of the divine and

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points to the one pole of our existence, where as physical-material
clothed in the human physical body. From the very beginning of
physical existence the working of the spirit within the physical body
actually leads this physical body towards death. The thought of death
worlds, not in the physical-material world. For if you seek Him in the
physical-material world, you can but be told: He Whom you seek is no
the crucifix, just as the portrayals of the physical give expression
counter-image of its own physical suffering, in order that this might
everything that can befall the physical body. Men needed, first, the
— even within man — remains unaffected by the physical and
earthly and physical. This aspect, it is true, has often been
the Chrestos — the man suffering within the physical
physical senses is the outer expression of the Spirit of our universe,
the cosmic time piece, just as for the affairs of physical existence
physical and earthly must be linked to the super-physical and the

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physical world around him; and there is, indeed, some justification
— leave the physical and etheric bodies and continue to exist
answers in the trivial way that we are used to in our physical
the physical aspect. The spiritual truth is that men live upon the
the physical aspect. The truth is that thoughts are brought down to
only the physical properties of sun and moon. The old initiate said:
when his physical body has fallen a victim to the forces of death.
stand, as it were, midway between processes regarded as physical and
everything from the physical point of view. He says: “An eclipse
the earth, cutting off the rays of the sun.” This is a physical
explanation, built up from physical observation and as obvious as if
see, it is a purely physical, spatial explanation, and that is as far
their physical but also from their spiritual aspect.
is blocked by the moon; that is a purely physical process. But
physical matter — in this case the body of the moon — is no
Ordinarily, the physical sunlight unites with the radiations of will
on earth to spread over the cosmos. An eclipse is a physical event
the physical explanation. But in this case also the old initiate knew
that a spiritual reality was behind the physical fact. He knew that
Here again we approach a spiritual reality in a physical event. Today
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dissolution of his physical body is of the nature of will and thus
physical sun and the physical moon are anything else than signs for
nebula (physical plus spirit-and-soul) and here the primal nebula
physical sun I am speaking of something that comes out of the past.
eyes out in cosmic space draws the human will to itself. This physical
will streams. And equally, the physical moon is only the physical sign
so on. In short, they were answers relating to the realm of physics,
whole of space that is accessible to us and the physical Mercury is
heavens they are concentrated in a physical-mineral form and so are
in a physical-mineral form at the definite point where Venus is seen.
physical, into the solid constituents of our body. That we are able to
makes an impression of sourness in the moral-physical sense, this has
Thus the planets near the Sun have to do more with the physical

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us its physical, material aspect.
The human being presents his physical aspect when we view him from
there it presents its physical aspect to us. If we are able to view
what was described yesterday in its material-physical aspect —
A vantage-point of vision lying outside the physical-material cosmos
carried on from within the physical body. Under these conditions it is
material-physical cosmos. The boundary of the material-physical cosmos
place only on the physical foundations of the bodily nature. Such
questions can be answered only when, outside this physical existence,
When we contemplate the material-physical aspect of Jupiter, for
sees the cosmos as a moral reality, not as a physical reality. And
then becomes part of himself when he again passes into physical
reality of the spirit and soul of a man when confronting the physical
understood. For in everything we see here on the earth, physically to
into physical existence. Compared with the men of today these primeval
contemplated from the earth is firstly the physical cosmos (including
the earth), then the etheric cosmos. But in ordinary physical space
there are, in reality, only the physical cosmos and the etheric

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something that can be explained only in terms of mineral-physical
physical examination, but also through penetrating to the essence of
physical corporeality, etheric corporeality; that is, in the actual
science. It will, for instance, be said: Man has his physical body and
the emanations of warmth and light radiating from the etheric-physical
time, when the earth had a Sun-existence, the physical part of the
physical and chemical means. In reality, carbon is the element which
physical plant-world has its foundation in carbon — we should be
element, which gives man the physical stamp for cleverness, also
their physical characteristics. But it is not known that carbon is the
their physical instruments — so they will also find out things
of little use for our physical life. Oxygen we inhale; in the body it
nitrogen our ego and our astral body when outside the physical body
and waking if we could not immerse ourselves in nitrogen. Our physical
carries the physical death-forces and the spiritual life-forces of
escape from the physical death-forces to another existence in our

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were members of monastic orders. They stressed physical cleanliness;

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world of physical matter, of bodies. I said above that apart from
Physical World Image
have today of the physical world. Wherever they looked, at whatever
it was the Greek form of necessity, not our modern physical

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began to apply this mathematical thought to the whole physical and
in order to comprehend some physical process. As a geometrician, this
meaning the physical one — into the nerve-sense system, the
experience; instead, we discover the physical circulation of the

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heads of metaphysicians and philosophers. Berkeley feels that when
Newton's physics we meet for the first time ideas of nature
Newtonian physics.
movement. The basis of the physical world of phenomena must be

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divided everything that man perceives in his physical

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the nature of physical corporeality.
experiences. But I have pointed out that inside the physical man as
normally dwell within his physical and etheric bodies but during
sleep they can also be outside the physical and etheric bodies. Just
is to be found outside the physical and etheric bodies from the
realities, not physical-etheric ones. In spite of the fact that what
experience them as reality, when we are outside our physical body. We
horizontal lines stand for the physical and etheric body of man, the
Man experiences them outside his physical and etheric body,
spiritual is active only with the aid of the physical body. Hence it
ought to conduct physical experiments as to what happens in the air
physical and etheric bodies. But these are thoughts that never
indeed indwell and permeate the physical and etheric body during the
physics, of physiology, by saying: Out there is a silent and
man is missing in the scientific approach, missing in the physical

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members — the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body
When we observe the physical body and consider the possibility of
inward experiencing one's physical body — we should begin
experienced in the physical body.
The reason it is less obvious in other experiences of the physical
external nature (an event physically separated from him) he
world that we study in physics today were in fact also viewed
physics were pervaded by something of which one can say that it
brought even the physical activities of objects close to the inner
all science. The inner experience in the physical body was totally
lost. What can be termed the inner physics of man was lost. External
physics was divorced from man, along with mathematics. The progress
thereby achieved consisted in the objectifying of the physical. What
is physical can be looked at in two ways. Staying with the example of
physical was so completely removed from man that he was not aware
that he had the physical inside him as well.
law of falling bodies, but all the ideas of physics. Another example
the law of inertia in physics under the influence of
the physicist says: A body, or rather a point, on which no external
without change. All the physicist does is measure the distance per
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relationship of the spiritual world to the physical, the possibility
a different kind. The soul and spirit of man as well as the physical
being of man with our initiation science today, we have the physical
of the physical body, an inward experience of movement, an inner
other physical and mechanical processes. We can call this inner
experience the experiencing of physics in man. But this experience of
physics in man is at the same time the cognition of the very laws of
physics and mechanics. There was a physics of man directed toward the
physical body. It would not have occurred to anyone in those times to
search for physics other than through the experience in man. Now, in
was thenceforth applied in physics, what was inwardly experienced is
cast out of man and grasped abstractly. It can be said that physics
emerged, as did mathematics and physics, and became external
chemistry (see Figure 1.) Try to imagine how the physics and
processes. The main point was: it was experienced physics,
In those ages when men felt external nature in their physical and
cast out chemistry and physics; thinking, feeling and willing were
sunshine or the lack thereof. And just as he experienced physical and
scientific age, man drove physics and chemistry out into the external
When man had the inward experience of his physical body, he had the
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science, we must say that we member man into physical body, etheric
physical body resides only in the small part of the human
What is described today as the subject matter of external physics or
the physical body. Our present-day physics contains statements that
physics of the physical body. As I have explained a number of times,
this inward physics was divorced from man and now continues to
physical and mechanical way.
appears to himself as a soul being. Physics and chemistry were cast
Now we must call to mind what is needed, on the one hand for physics
soul. Take physics, for example, which in recent times has become
human nature, in his physical body. This experience, after the great
physical object by an extending of the same method with which we
regard to the outer physical world must be extended in the direction
whether or not modern physics speaks, for example, of atoms; what
discuss the best in the case of physics, since today's
mechanics and physics into external space. That is what we are doing
physical aspect is the sole object of our study of nature. You must
what is dead. Therefore, our physics is dead by its nature.
erecting a physics that is dead, the end-product of living things is
at nature with the eyes of modern mechanics and physics, we must
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only as a physical body. But Philosophy was originally a
soul-content which was not experienced by the physical body, but by a
etheric body, forming the basis of the physical body, and this
physical body. Man can use the organization of this etheric body just
as he can that of the physical. This etheric body draws ideas from the
super-sensible world, just as the physical body does, through the
picture one can no doubt understand the human physical body. But the
soul-life can have its origin in and with the physical body through
as having a part in the Cosmos, for these live only in the physical
as a member of the Cosmos, for this enters the physical nature at
remains only a physical Cosmology, and even this contains no more than
the origins of physical man. It is necessary once more to found a
man feels himself independent not only of his physical and etheric
in respect of his physical nature. He must be recognized

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the incorporation of the human physical organism in its course.
activity which is reproduced in the physical organism. But at the same
time we are conscious only of what the physical organism allows us to
physical organism by meditation, and the soul then experiences the
super-sensible in a super-sensible way; no longer the physical but the
objective as there is in physical thought about the things of the
a spiritual Cosmos, just as we have a physical Cosmos before the
the physical reproduction of what exists in the spiritual sphere in
earth, and how it takes on the cloak of the physical organism through
attempt to present to ourselves events which in the physical world
reflected in etheric and also in physical man, and produce in this
sleep. In this condition the physical and etheric organisms require
metabolic processes of man have a life of their own as physical and
physical Cosmos. He can speak of the content of the religious
experiences in the spiritual sphere is reflected in the physical and
will-power from the physical and etheric organism. We bind the will to
possibility of thinking through the physical organism, though such
conducted through the physical organism. In this thought, which
physical world, man has the possibility of developing an objective

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into the consciousness from the physical, or instinctive, or
physical and etheric organism must remain completely untouched by
physical and etheric organism. We have the etheric experience; and our
ether and one in our physical body. The condition is not right if
physical organism, and are not taken up into his etheric being. He
through the senses it is filled with physical. And this is the
Cosmos just as we live an inner life in the physical organism. But we
experience, and the physical view of the Cosmos like the
this etheric occurrence. What we know in the physical world as Sun and
of these cosmic essences. The physical organism of man now becomes
would not satisfy the requirement to leave untouched his physical and

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can call heredity passes on in a continuous process from the physical
organisms of the ancestors to the physical organisms of posterity. But
can be said to have an existence beyond the physical life of man.
consciousness that is freed also from the content of our own physical
physical, and there formed union with the body which exists through
organization which comes from the etheric Cosmos, and with a physical
physical man. The external forces of Nature, to which the corpse is
in the physical organism, the baby does to the old man on his
physical and etheric organism. He experiences what existence is after
physical Cosmology, built up on the nature-knowledge of the physical
only outside the physical and etheric organism.

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consciousness, for this rests on the basis of the physical
experiences which took place before sleep on the basis of the physical
daily life joy is experienced consciously. Physically an enlargement
that of the waking condition. The physical and etheric organisms
conditioned by the physical and etheric organisms. The soul lives
rhythm of breathing and blood-circulation. During sleep the physical
as physical projections of spirits, in the manner just described.
entering into a physical body through conception and the life of the
activity of those spirit beings which have their physical counterpart

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Transference from the Psycho-Spiritual to the Physical Sense-life
TRANSFERENCE FROM THE PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL TO THE PHYSICAL SENSE-LIFE IN
During the state of sleep the physical and etheric organisms of man
the Cosmos which are reflected physically in the appearances of the
In this state he does not recognize a physical and etheric
cell of the physical organism, which at some future time he will put
‘Cell’ we usually mean the small physical beginning of a
physical part of the cell.
spiritual and that for them space, in which physical happenings move,
which is the spiritual germ of his future physical organism, and this
the other life of the cosmos, as does later his physical organism.
spirit-cell of his future physical organism. He himself prepares for
physical world round him in which he is active, so in his pre-earthly
existence he perceives his physical organism being built in spirit;
activity in the physical world consists in helping to shape the
physical things of the outer world.
In the spirit-cell of the physical human body which the
universe is present, no less manifold than the physical outer world of
incorporated in his physical body, though unknown to himself, carries
a universe of such magnificence that the physical world cannot be
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the physical senses. Now it depends on the understanding which man can
If one does not realize in one's own physical nature how something
experience as to become manifest in the physical world of the senses,
sense-observation reveals something of the actually physical.
of himself became more and more limited to what his physical
to the physical nature of man, death became a disturbing problem for
has its counterpart in the physical sun.
life, had descended as the Christ upon the physical earth and taken
ordinary consciousness is a result of the physical body, and therefore
physical organism appeared out of order, for they had to assume that

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experience through his physical organism of the outer world, whereas
etheric organism has effected in the physical organism.
physical organism must always be capable of being brought into
ego into the physical organism than is the case in the ordinary
‘stepping-out’ from the physical organism, and the ordinary
physical organism.
but that part which before was conscious in the physical organism
physical functions than the man who perceives the outer world by means
mirrored by the physical organism. And the substantial part of this
physical.
activity a conceptual form by grasping the physical organism. It dives
unconsciously in the astral organism, and both the physical and
spiritual world, as in ordinary existence it lives in its physical
The soul learns in this way how the physical, etheric and astral
sinks into the physical, etheric and astral organism. This sinking is
not really a merging of something spiritual into something physical,
part of the human soul into the physical and etheric organization.
being transformed into the physical and etheric organism. It is this
physical organism. One perceives this when true intuition has been
physical body and earthly life.
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within the physical sense-world. These higher parts of the human
physical organisms. Through thinking the sense-perceptions are
consciousness by the physical organism.
reflective activity of thinking in the physical organism, it can only
thoughts. These unperceived happenings in the physical organism are
thoughts man perceives what he himself is enacting in his physical
a copy of the outer world as inner activity, filling the physical
physical organism. In the waking state it is similar. The inner
physical state into a spiritual one. But this change can only remain a
tendency during earthly existence. The physical organization resists
changing activity arrives at a point at which the inner physical
head-organization would have to cease as a physical one, the state of
strength from the rest of the physical organization by means of which
it can continue in the physical world.
existence on earth act in rebuilding the physical organism.
tearing down, that is, one which destroys the physical organism. This
What finally happens to the whole human organism in physical death
consciousness stand the etheric and the physical organism as
soul. The physical and etheric organizations hide for him the astral
is filled by the reflections of the physical organism during existence
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physical organism than the part which corresponds with feeling. And
more loosely connected with the physical organism than is the part
of the physical organism corresponds with feeling, the will-part of
physical. The connection between the feeling soul with the rhythmical
connection of the will-part to the physical is at first felt to be
physical and etheric event. This will-part is by its own nature
prevented from being resolved into physical activity. It stands back
the physical and etheric organization and to be active in it. The
physical organism. During the making of thoughts this destruction
physical organism takes place. This stimulates the will-part of the
part of man and leave the physical part untouched.
through the physical organism. This is done by the exercises
described. If this desire becomes so strong that the physical organism
physical, psychic and spiritual being. A knowledge keeping solely
physical, etheric and astral organism, as well as to the nature of the
ground of a physical science. From this point of view this is quite
earthly life, because his physical and etheric organism with their
to form another physical and etheric organism, through which the moral
future physical earth-organism. Man then still has a tendency to look
physical phenomena of the moon. Outwardly he has been separated from
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itself such ideas of a physical appearance, (sinnlichen
the standpoint of Demonology to that of Metaphysics. Whereas
People became Metaphysical when they no longer it wasted
Metaphysics. They united certain concepts with their own
longer looks to metaphysical concepts when seeking the basis of
the metaphysical explanation given about the orderings of
space, as physics explain the law of Forces, Chemistry the
last phase of Demonology. Then appeared Metaphysics, —
Demonology, Metaphysics and Positivism. And one can say he took
threefold division is Theology, Metaphysics, and what he calls
person who most easily becomes a believer in Metaphysics is the
believer, a follower of Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
Metaphysics

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physical and etheric bodies. But if we wish to go more deeply
affairs at the present cycle of time is, that our physical and
and physical bodies as a kind of shell into which he crawls, to
physical and etheric bodies were himself. But this they are
the physical and etheric bodies as an instrument; but we cannot
blows with it; so should we regard our physical and etheric
by the physica1 and etheric bodies. That simply rests in the
physical and etheric bodies, so to speak, and they bring about
physical body absorbs that consciousness, so that it appears as
if the physical body brought about our personality. Anyone who
thinks that his physical body brings about his personality is
experiences inwardly, is somehow produced by the physical and
etheric bodies; whereas all the physical and etheric bodies do,
consciousness was united with his physical body. Of course,
by his physical body; in olden times no man felt himself bound
to his physical body as the modern man does. In those
with his physical body. Man to-day gives himself over to a
Angels, Archangels and Archai, is because his physical body
bound to my physical or etheric bodies any more than when I
experience an Ordering of our Ideals (yellow). The physicist
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that they had come down from Divine-Spiritual worlds into physical and
physical existence.
of that God Who leads over the earthly and physical to the
super-sensible and superphysical. It is the God connected with the
and physics, the Christ Being could never have descended. In the light
truth that the Divine-Spiritual heavens and the physical world of

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physical reality and are the true causes of all that happens. It was,
decades earlier or later. In outer physical reality, which takes on
different way from that of the materialistic physicists, really make
listen to them in their field of action behind the physical plane.
and again away from the earth, to draw him right out of his physical
West. The world of imagination was pulled down into the heavy physical
really physical pains that I am quite unable to define. Such is my
out...” Think of it! The imaginations work so physically in him
other sufferings, the birth throes, actual physical pains that I am
external power that develops on the physical plane. A power runs right
myth since it cannot be expressed in external physical science. Thus,

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Western Hemisphere did not come to outer physical earthly reality, our
one who did not descend to physical incarnation. A great many men were
come down to physical incarnation but also could be perceived by men

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spiritually emerges in the physical world. It corresponds to a deep
externally and physically, but inasmuch as we are in the world,
surrounded by a spiritual world just as we are by a physical one. That
are actually only valid here in the physical world. When one sees the
leave behind our physical and etheric bodies, we are in a world where

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develop in physical existence on the earth. Thereby Ahriman's plan to
overthrown by physical deeds.
made the earth; together with physical man — for the souls were
successor of Tao. This being, Taotl did not appear in a physical body
being who did not appear in a physical body but who was known to many
birth of a being who lived in a physical body in contrast to those
a physical body. In Vitzliputzli the spiritual individuality lived
physical phenomenon, a physical fact, were to signify an end of human

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physical earthly world into spiritual activity. What now came from the
was too rapid and unsuitable to physical evolution.)

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deal with, the physical world. In Locke and Voltaire, in Montesquieu
the physical body after having already had, while still in that
physical body, deep insight into the spiritual world. This remains; it
of the spiritual world while in the physical body remains so closely
powerful because, in the physical body, it has experienced the
modern physics; Kepler modern astronomy; we have galvanic, voltaic
externally, mathematically or physically as Copernicus, Kepler,
have a physical cosmic system; when we study it we must, as we know,
similar things could be recorded. Today, in orthodox physics, one
arrived. Why need I bother now in the physical body about this life
would be really unnecessary, here in the physical body, to bother

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thinking something of a super-physical world, but it would have, to
conditioned from any part of physical earthly space, but by the whole
than when he is awake; for he is then outside his physical and
to the astral body which is outside the physical body in sleep. You
perceived formerly with your physical senses begin to wear a
over into and moulds the physical body; and so markedly does this
spiritual everywhere works unimpeded in the physical world.
physical in all things; that is, if you penetrate into the depths of

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The Activity of the Soul-Nature in Physical Man
the soul-nature in physical man in reference to those things which we
advanced to the revelation of the soul and spirit in the physical.
The whole entrance of man into physical earthly life is
a taking possession of the physical by the soul and spirit, and if,
with the physical bodily nature which man as an individual being
which are connected with that which was peculiar to his physical
physical body which is given over to the elements of the earth, and
is the form which gives actual shape to the physical substance which
man carries in himself. This form, compared with the robust physical
true image of the way in which the man here in his physical earthly
life was good or evil. Here in physical earthly life a man can
super-sensible, super-physical beings, but always such as are similar
away from physical materiality that which has the tendency in itself
away from his physical body. The Luciferic beings endeavour to make
physical and etheric bodies, these they seek to separate and bring
mother, with the physical embryonic existence. These two, the
physical embryonic and the spiritual existence interpenetrate each
state of confusion in reference to his ego as regards his physical
exposed to those impulses which lie in his physical environment, in
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way. Picture to yourselves during sleep the etheric and physical
physical reality.

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as a physical human being, an independent separate existence. He is
but as physical earth man he belongs to the earth in its organic
course present also during the day. And it is not a physical but a
physical but a spiritual being. But the process which the earth then
physical being separated by a few miles from the body of the earth he
body. The delusion of man that as a physical being he is independent
a physical being, has concerning the earth. It is just through the
higher cognition that the intimate belonging-together of the physical
were not merely spiritual beings but they also displayed a physical
physicists are the most limited one can imagine. For example, they
space as the physicists imagine to be the case with light rays. They

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will. His will would then have become entirely a physical function.
Through having separated these things from himself the physical is
upon a physical organic foundation, has only gradually developed, and
Thus gradually, if we follow what is physical backwards
finer physical to the spiritual, and in this way, by paying attention
cosmic space in such a way that we were not physical substance at
differentiated itself and then became physical.

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spiritual all that takes place in the physical world must at the same

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threshold of the spiritual world. Here in this physical world there
spiritual world. And the difficulties which we have in the physical
world with regard to knowledge are only the physical reflection of
the worthlessness of the knowledge which in this physical world one
feeling: Many say to me here in the physical world, ‘You must
soul, of mind, shutting out that which here in the physical world
through weak human striving, bound up with the physical body, is
disappointments in the physical world. But there were also feelings
outwardly physical, but which he saw with terrific clearness. He read

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physical body. Then he had to make quite clear to himself the inner

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gelatinous material something arose which was physically much harder
you are also cold in the soul. Physical heat is not at the same time
something belonging to the soul. Only think how little the physical
as heat he felt at the same time as soul-heat as well as physical
For we shall only become Jupiter-men if we unite physical heat with
of course, in physical earth-reality, but in a picture.
feel soul-heat and physical heat as one, but that which he felt as
one, this soul-physical heat, began to shine. The mystery of the
place in the physical-sense World through the God Christ.
the event was taking place in physical reality on another spot of
earth. The physical reality of Palestine was seen spiritually in
But that which was based only on physical reality
gradually that which appealed to the sense-physical existence gained
news of the Redeemer living on earth in a physical body, gained the
be reached through that which was to be seen physically, when men,
accepted as true which were not founded on physical sight. Thus
physical-sense world as model, whereas the Hibernian art was founded
Valentine Andreae is the physical writer of this
Valentine Andreae — physically it was the same personality —
physical personality. He who wrote the
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religion, physical perception, or at least a tradition based on this
physical perception of the Mystery of Golgotha, without any
Mysteries of Hibernia, they had of necessity to experience a physical
physical world.
to the mere historical tradition, which simply related the physical
transpired in physical life. Less and less did humanity in general
figure, perceptible physically; this became for a time the necessary
these forces of the lead, not through his physical body, but through
etheric body they also impregnate the physical body, in a certain
physical eyes, and preserve this throughout his earthly life; but he
corpse; and if we occupy ourselves with physics or chemistry, are we
Thus in our science and physics we cut into living nature.

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the instruction in physics which his teacher gives him and what he

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become the abstractions which meet us today in our modern physics and

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physical body, we may say that through gold the ego-organization
body can then work further on the physical body; but gold brings it
physical vision to the moon forms. At certain definite times he did
relation with the physical earth, with the earthly, the watery, the
world. What we see as the physical Venus is in a sense simply the
light. The physical light of Venus is something quite different from
the sunlight, for instance; for physical sunlight still has a

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budding physician enters the realm of pathology, however, he approaches
This paradox led to skepticism among many physicians, especially to the
modern physician is basically unable to take the spiritual into

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soul-spiritual with the physical-bodily existence of the human being.
with many well-trained physicians, for this question of how much
good if this became a kind of inner principle for every physician,
became an inner principle so that the physician would coordinate his
the physical body, of creating anything out of nature simply by
the physical-etheric organism at the time of the change of teeth, what
the human being therefore has within the physical-etheric organism
What is active in the human physical-etheric during the childhood
entering physical existence through birth. We bring with us the forces
below in the physical organization. Then what I spoke to you about
clothed with a physical body. A person suffering from childhood
is too little grounded in physical research, because he is, as it
were, a dilettante in physical research (though I must add
in physical research in order to become a spiritual investigator;
rather he must be even more immersed in physical research than the
with physical illnesses we have a soul-spiritual element that does not
belong in the physical organism (drawing b), with the so-called mental
of the physical-etheric something that should remain within it
If we are looking for the cause of physical illness, we must
understand the relationship between the soul-spiritual and the physical
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well-grounded in facts, may develop between physician and patient.
between the so-called academic physicians and those using natural
then proliferates, as it were, in the physical processes of illness so
that the soul-spiritual cannot work separately from the physical
hold of the physical organism, whereupon certain parts of the physical
way organs “physicalize” — if I may use such a word —
precisely with a threefolding of the physical-bodily being: a kind of
its tool, but as its physical basis — everything that takes place
physically in the nerve-sense system. It is not the case, as is
elaborated from the other side, from the physical-empirical side. It
are able to present about the physical processes in the nervous
live in the physical organism at all without continuously exposing our
this, the physician must move into further specialization. He must
for an understanding to grow of what the physician has to undertake
twenty lectures given to physicians in Dornach, 1920.

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physicians, again for the reasons I presented this morning.
trust between the public and physicians. The better our understanding
The soul-spiritual, the etheric, and the physical are all active in
conscious soul life, has its physical carrier by means of which it
works in a certain way in physical life. We may therefore say that if
physical scaffolding, as it were — the physical carrier — of a
through certain processes that we bring about in it. The physical
independent, as it were, to tear itself away and as physical activity,
as scaffolding of physical force-activity, to separate itself from the
activity, though working merely physically. In a certain way we thus
means only physically — to the way it normally works when
physical ego-scaffolding (see Drawing 1, white), which I have
the whole connection of the soul-spiritual with the physical. What is
connection between the soul-spiritual and the physical. Take the case
system. Then the physical aspect of this metabolic-limb system can be
— with the physical carrier of this ego-activity. Something different
however, that we say: the plant is a being; it is also physical; it
of them this spring in the course for physicians
way of studying into knowledge of the physical human being and its
twenty lectures given to physicians in Dornach, 1920.

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We as human beings have our physical bodies, which are heavy just like
any other physical bodies. Your physical body will be heavier after a
And now another thing. If you call to mind your studies of Physics,
you will remember the physicist speaks of the “spectrum.”
Political Economy, human thinking upon Physics was in such a condition
you simply ask: What are the physical properties of carbon? you will

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Physics. If you have water up here it will flow down there, simply

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the contrast in Physics between kinetic and potential energies —

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the economic process, in precisely the same way that the physicist,
thinking about Physics. The physicist does this by developing a
forward in the process of “work” in the sense of Physics.
“work” in the sense of Physics? If I describe
Mass in the process of “work” in the sense of Physics.

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be doing. They must be doing physical work. By bodily Labour they call
lessons, the parsons and teachers would have to do physical work.
are spared physical Labour. If they are to do their spiritual
time in physical Labour. Therefore the valuation on their side will
depend on the amount of physical Labour of which they are
contributes physical Labour, another saves it and his spiritual
achievement has a value corresponding to the amount of physical Labour
do so if he can save himself physical Labour for a period of ten
would be made out of other products by physical Labour during ten
exclusively from the physical side. They said that Capital is to be
— that of physical work. What gives value to the product is in
The direction is exactly opposite. Physical Labour only has meaning
other two. We have the case where a man has to do physical Labour, yet
taking hold of a real process. It is not that physical Labour is done
Nature. All that is done of physical Labour helps to create values.
physical Labour. For this very reason, we are enabled to express in a
real way what actually happens. Physical workers are active, spiritual
Physical strength is of course applied, and it must be so more and
positive sense. The point is that the physical Labour is divested, to
so if those who perform the physical Labour evince a growing need for
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amount of physical Labour upon some means of production which is saved
by it, minus the very small amount of physical work spent on the
on the one hand we have the physical Labour spent on the means of

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conditions that obtain for man's physical life on Earth. It was
respect of reality — of the physical men he saw with his
time physical experience in the senses; that is to say, when the
time it became an article of faith for professional physicists.
physicists. But things were different in Goethe's time. He did
of Colour, not physical, but of the soul. Colour permeated with Life,

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time, because of the kind of connection of the physical body with the
physical organisation. He felt how his blood flowed, he felt every
physically real in the past is of course only to be found now by way
carried over in Eurhythmy to the physical body and becomes the
more deeply involved in physical existence than he should be, thereby

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peculiar constitution of the physical body; they knew that it is the
physical body that gives the medium his spiritual powers. But the
physical body they looked upon as “fallen,” and
without physical body, forasmuch as a time has come when for a short
appear in a physical body. The time will come again when he can do
generally with the calling of a physician, healing the sick, and at
life of the physical senses has its spiritual counterpart; we have

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relationship to the physical substances of the Earth, and itself take
physical substance — not from the body of the mother, but from
to his strong impulses in the direction of the physical, he became,
themselves, within earthly physical life, this true and genuine

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time to make observations in the physical world, since I was not then
in the physical world, but in a spiritual way it became known to me

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until his physical body, and that which the Gods can give him, if
physical nature — is such that we feel Michael constantly
care so much for what he sees physically, what is already fixed; but

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his physical body, and that which the Gods can give him, if with the
physical nature — is such that we feel Michael constantly
care so much for what he sees physically, what is already fixed; but

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that the real Initiates, being made independent of the physical body
in the physical world, the soul-world and the spiritual world of

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consciousness of the fact that when man descends to this physical life
to speak, through birth into this physical existence, the forces of
physical man — he escapes when he passes through the gate of
forces? He knows only the outward and physical aspect. He knows —
according to the whole nature of his physical and etheric bodies. It
soul and spirit entered into the physical body which it received from
physical body. But as to how the soul and spirit in the course of time
permeates the physical — permeates the nerves-and-senses system,
physical world. But what after all can a man do when at last he has so
far penetrated his physical body with the soul and spirit that he
through the eyes into himself. At most he can flay the physical corpse
learned to know the Temple Grove of man — permeated physically by
When man actually dies, he lays his physical body aside. He is no
freed from them. But when he is still connected with the physical body
physical body. And the same forces which gave man power to hold
human being into the spiritual world, just as his physical body
transplants him into the physical world. At this stage the Initiate
the physical body must cease. He must perceive that while man in his
physical body belongs to the Earth, yet in reality the Earth is only
there to destroy the physical body, not to build it. Henceforth he
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physical body, with the Earth. Now with the epoch of materialism it
of the fact that a soul-and-spirit permeates this physical body. It is
with the physical man on Earth. And the first and nearest relationship
that represents itself to us so evidently in physical surfaces as the
Full Moon, showing us a physical aspect, we see something altogether
appears to us in the physical light as the Full Moon. Thus the Moon is
present, now in a fully physical way and now again in a fully
between the physical manifestation and the spiritual manifestation of
to Earth to unite with the physical bodily nature that is given to him
for his Ego and astral body to unite with the physical, he must first
fact that the Moon is not the mere physical body of which modern
from the Earth. But it was not only physical matter that went forth
time upon the Earth, not in a physical body but in a spiritual form,
of lunar colony. Thus we must distinguish in the Moon the physical and
listening outward through the ears, to see and hear the physical
earthly environment. He could free himself from his physical body and
physical body and live in the etheric body only. And when he thus
physical larynx but with the speech that resounds in Mars as cosmic
Cosmos; he moved not with the physical feet and legs but in the sense
physical body for a while. With his soul and spirit he had gone out
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human being. He felt a premonition of the physical body which he would
perceive through the eye what takes place within the physical horizon
clothe himself in a physical body that he may live on, on Earth, as
this being who in a physical garment bears the God within him:
What is it that meets you on the physical plane? What is there on the
and physical worlds are contained.
spaces through the astral light that played its part in the physical

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loosened from the physical body, the man becomes an artist, producing
physically blind but who has become clairvoyant. The child speaks of
So we see how mother and child go to pieces physically,
Past, they go to pieces physically and are transported atavistically
physically, describes principles of art and produces an entirely new
humanity in the future? Must human beings go to pieces physically if

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far surpassing all the theories of evolution, the physics, chemistry
today — which is fully justified in the purely physical domain.
different modes of expression, — In the physical world we see
life, for his physical body was almost totally paralysed; this was

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investigations are made in the domains of chemistry or physics where
one has to depend upon the physical world, one can at least feel
physical experiments, and not from above downwards, that is to say,
physical body was already far more consolidated than that of man and
nowadays. Since the time of Atlantis everything in man's physical
sense it can be said of man that his physical body today is fixed
equally with the physical body, the etheric body too is on the way
into our fifth post-Atlantean epoch the physical body has acquired
it passes with its fixed forms into the physical body, will assert
upon the physical, will make the physical body into a faithful image
to be provided for a peculiar formation in the physical body such as
so strong that they are able to correct the mistakes of our physical
forces in man were at work, still shaping and moulding the Physical;
but a time will come when the Physical and the etheric have become

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from Spiritual Science all that can be of value to physicians. It is
Probably you have all, in thinking over the task of the physician,
constituted all physical existence: Earth, Water, Air and Fire — Fire
what could be physically or chemically verified, or included in the
Man possesses a physical organism
periphery. Our physical body is a portion as it were of the whole
physical. But he did not investigate further — though he gave some
his physical organisation. Stahl and his followers talk as though the
indugatis by Morgagni. Morgagni was a physician of Padua, who
physical earthly environment? How can we initiate an interaction which

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physical body does not at once bear the brunt of these irregularities,
denser in its forces and takes hold of the physical organism. Thus,
what was at first merely a tendency to hysteria, may take physical
the physical body. It is there, but it is not evident in any definite
the signature of hysteria. It has been driven into the physical
become an appreciable physical affliction. But it is strong enough to
negative. This phenomenon, in which so to speak, the first physical
place during working hours, during full physico-spiritual awakeness.
The danger of being a physician is that he must not only be able to
which the physician is able to heal diseases he can also provoke them.
physician a double power, who could smite with sickness, if he were of
an understanding of its imprints on the organic and physical
convinces us that the physician must have a hand in the
processes contrary to the physical and the organic. But perhaps you

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completely mystified and misled the most capable physicians, who
appearance, from a cause which was not understood by the physicians,
his awkwardness. But this external and physical clumsiness was
stronger, and also physically larger. We must bring together facts
physical and spiritual in man. For the forces we learnt to know as

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of this treatment, you forget that you work as individual physicians.
investigations by means of the methods proper to physics; but you will
physical weight of our organism, but within the buoyancy which is the
processes. In fact we do not live in what physics would make of us,
but in that part of the physical that is neutralised or counteracted
and a bladder in our physical organism, but in our etheric organism,
superiority over birds as we have in our physical; for the etheric
for men capable of thinking, to arise on a physical basis; for man
of the need for physical action in order to think; but instead your
manifested in the physical world through man, so far as they are
knowledge. We cannot merely echo the physicians of antiquity, who

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relation to his physical body. This must be taken into account, if we
Then we must find out the relationship of both physical and etheric
own, and not to concern themselves very closely with the physical body,
ego, into the physical and etheric bodies. Lazy people have very
certain reluctance of the astral body and ego to permeate the physical
organisation. And if the physician who has to treat an isolated case
physical sympathies and antipathies. It is particularly important to
between the ego and astral body on the one hand, and the physical and
the interaction of ego and astral body with the etheric and physical
in another context, we cannot merely repeat what the physicians of old
and physical bodies, have an organic hunger or thirst for salt; that
closer relationship with the physical organism.
body likes to separate from the physical, does so with ease, and goes
and ego are not settled properly in the physical. If these symptoms
themselves more with the physical body. In persons who have restless
the astral body and ego to the physical and etheric bodies.

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secretion and the physical base of sex. So if we examine the
astral body of man leave the physical and etheric bodies, and that on
element by the physical body; you will find that there are 25,915 or
molecular physics and molecular atomic chemistry of today. This atomic
chemical and physical terms to read the ancient writings. This is
the ancient physicians, who always began by extracting the essentially
use of the result. In the opinion of these physicians, the specific

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physical body, so that sexual maturity may come about. And there is a
frequent risk of the elasticity of the physical and etheric bodies not
out in physical manifestations, as, for instance, in chorea. All
equilibrium between the elasticities of the etheric and the physical
harmony of elasticity in physical and etheric bodies is of course
act as a balancing factor between the elasticity of the physical and
relationship with the physical and etheric, and if it has not been
physician would do well to inquire whether there were any morbid
to “work itself out.” Particularly in such cases, a kind of “physical”
man's being. He has, to begin with, his physical organisation; then
way into the physical organism between the seventh and fourteenth
science limit its observation to the physical body. These processes in
the physical body, however, are never autonomous, and above all they
the astral body, or the ego. They are all physical processes, but
man is operative within the physical body.
physical and etheric bodies) are extra-telluric as well as telluric,
Physical manifestations such as the tides and many allied
in the earth itself, so that the physical effect, the effect upon the
physical, comes via the earth. And on the other hand, to the outer
diagnosis, the physician should visualise the position and attitude of

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physical functions. Nowadays, people are not very ready to link up
expressions in the realm of physical functions with the spiritual
the physical. You have learned that this interaction is at work in man
to that which surrounds us. Just as the etheric and the physical are
and the physical in man himself.
etheric with the physical? From the abstract point of view, we can say
that the etheric is nearer to the astral than to the physical; for the
relationship between the etheric and the physical. So we must take
physical.
etheric has to the astral on one side and to the physical on the
there is a physical revelation of the etheric in its dual relationship
to the physical and the astral. When we examine what takes place in
into the physical on the other. The sense of smell reaches outwards
instrument of the physical eye, has a close inner relationship to the
in the relationships of the etheric with the physical: and smell, on

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physical measures; and which factors are contained in the healthy
are certainly injured in persons who are obliged to do physical work
“physical” methods. [e.Ed: i.e., open air, light, warmth, etc.] For the

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overpowered the physical.
“agitating” for anything. I know that even homeopathic physicians have
physically formative in man, and at the same time associated with all

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sun. That is only a somewhat fatal fantasy on the part of physicists

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physics or of chemistry. And we, as men and as earthly beings, are
consists of the following four members: the physical body, the etheric
bond between the etheric and physical bodies; so even in the waking
and ego on the one hand and etheric body and physical body on the
physical bodies. This looser link between the two groups, the upper
and physical bodies — is a true mirror-image of the loose admixture
their partners, the physical body and the ego.

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with their culmination in cancer, by means of merely physical methods,
within the physical organism.
physical body, against the action of the etheric body; these processes
regions of the physical body.
the counteracting physical processes which oppose the etheric body, so
essentially a revolt of certain physical forces against the forces of
encroachments, so to speak, of the physical structure over the etheric
special process of the physical body, as against the etheric, the body
chapter of physics and does not interest us here; it is unfortunately
representing an area in the physical
take hold of the physical body may lead one to a certain
administration of viscum; it may happen, then, that the physical body
hand the human organism becomes physically mad, i.e., in formation.
mental diseases with physical remedies. That is a matter of major

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I must first of all repeat that the exclusively physical study of man
moulding the physical organism, yet entirely inaccessible to external
physical judgment — I use this term with intention and reference to
opposite extreme from the physical. The ego works upon the other human
action is on the physical body. In mankind today the ego has as yet
is a strong ego-influence over the physical body and only a slight
If you try to visualise this influence over the physical body, you
the physical body, like a kind of phantom of man, is always present.
physical. But in the course of our lives, we gradually forfeit the
body,” and its continuous tendency to break up within the physical
constituted as to be perceptibly tinged with physical forces. It is an
almost physical phantom that the ego inserts and erects; a real
(which in the physical body is similar to the etheric) give rise to
owing to the faults in its physical vehicle, the scaffold, but to its
physical framework within the organism, which tends to exuberate

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regarded only as a result of the physical action of the earth or of
the plant in very truth contains both the physical and etheric bodies
man it is situated more towards the centre of the whole physical
animal formative process. Consequently this physical internal man has

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that their physical occurrences are accompanied by the higher
their astral body far less closely bound to the physical, than in the
on the other hand, the feet and legs are massaged the physical element
“objective color therapy,” the influence is primarily on the physical
system, and through the physical vehicle on the ego, indirectly. Do
organism. And these ancients, these physicians of old, have also said:

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etheric body which is freed from the physical organisation or only
physical organic activity, and thence arise the phenomena to which I
body's activity from the physical organisation, e.g., during
another consequence of separation between the etheric and physical
at the other pole the etheric body is drawn into the physical
physical kind there is even more need to examine the conditions of the
physical disorders, attention should be given to the state of the
soul, and on the other, i.e., in abnormal soul states, the physical
disturbances should be examined. Physical sicknesses should always
experimentally by myself, perhaps at the physician's suggestion, but
physician. The ultimate result is seen in the fact that the diet
prescribed by the physician will be of benefit in the beginning, but

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pulsation, whose external physical manifestation is in the rhythm of
which has no physical existence, but which results from the interplay
as the physical plant springs from the soil becomes the cause of
in the smaller intestine. All the physical manifestations include the
These physical manifestations include the working of the bacilli
physician loses interest in man as a whole, if he specialises in one
direction. Far be it from me to suggest that physicians should not
of this condition were somehow to suggest to physicians that the
intervene much more in the physical functions; and must have organs as
direct working upon the physical; but the need persists in early
seized upon by the physical forces, degenerate during the
physical body, are such glands as the thyroid and thymus. On the
physical organs. Among the functional offices of the adrenal glands is

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barrier between the spiritual and the physical. For instance, in
It seems to me that these were the processes that the physicians of

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the internal physical processes of our bodies, as for instance the
The materialism of today explores and handles so-called physical
nature on the one hand, and the bodily and physical nature on the
withdrawal of ego and astral body from the physical and etheric
body from the physical; but the main and essential origin of pain is
Ordinary physical illness of chronic type arises if the whole morbid
sphere: what the liver should take up into the physical body is
will, so long will it fail to discover the relevant physical
physical treatment in so-called mental cases. It seems indeed
physical treatment for so-called mental diseases and to emphasise the

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part of earth maturity. In child physical organs and corresponding
made.] the physical body of the human being, as it confronts
rising up, as it were coming forth from this physical body. This life
diseased liver, or if it finds in the physical and the etheric body
system we do not see; everything which is filled with physical

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are surrounded by the physical world. But we have around us also the
taken, immediately before we descend to physical incarnation. The
development of the physical body must be living in the etheric body —
Physical body
result of his training) must be able to influence the physical body
experience of the physical and the etheric body, he had not the
into the physical body and ether body, he remains outside them all
the time; and so, being unable to make use of the physical body, he
physical and his etheric body and give our attention to his astral
physical and into the etheric body, and then again, he will
in order. Imagine you have here physical body and etheric body. [A
hold of the physical and the ether body and a rhythm such as I have
activity, so that physical body and etheric body are taken hold of
when firm hold is taken of the physical and etheric bodies, and then
the physical world. But when we come to working out of spiritual

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ego organisation enters directly into physical forces (gravity) and
have been speaking of the connection between etheric body, physical
pressing forward today from the physical to recognition and knowledge
first, the connection between physical body and etheric body. This
they are within the physical and etheric bodies. An accurate
membered into the physical and etheric bodies is indispensable if we
into his physical body and etheric body, combining with them in very
drawing was made.] If we have here the physical body,
organisation, entering in, proceed to lay hold of the physical and
and physical body; within these, it lays hold of the external
The ego, we could say, lays hold of the physical body (for the
physical body adapts itself to gravity. We place ourselves, do we
happens: on awaking we lay hold of the physical body with our ego,
and the physical body being heavy, being subject to the gravity of
the earth, we are now subject with our physical body to the gravity
physical body — with the physical force of gravity. Seen from
slips into the physical body, lays hold of the physical body —
slips in so far that it makes the physical body light. Through the
ego's gliding into it, the physical body loses its weight. And so
also its physical expression in the warmth organism — gravity
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in regard to physical body, ether body, astral body and ego
physical body and ether body on the one hand and astral body and ego
a similar way, physical body and ether body stand in a certain
organisation to come forth again out of an organ, out of the physical
will always find also the physical correlate of secretion; even where
it is through the physical body that the ego organisation and astral
life-ether. If now we may borrow from the physical realm a word which
between physical and spiritual), let us take the word “soreness”
process of creeping into the physical organism when the descent to

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life (which may be said to carry into the physical life on earth the
physical organisation white. And now let us be quite clear and
(purple), then the etheric (yellow), and then the physical (white).
farther in and the physical organisation farthest in of all.
(yellow), and still farther out, the physical organisation (white).
(on the left) will present, on the outside, a strong physical
Here the physical organisation (white)
(yellow), somewhat stronger here below than the physical, yet still
ether organisation (yellow) and the physical organisation (white).
pushed right inside, as it were — the physical organisation
outside, showing form and shape, are the physical body and the ether
becomes etheric; and finally, inside the bones, it becomes physical.
outwards from ego to physical body in the head organisation;
physical. And the arrangement in the rhythmic system, in between the
centripetally arranged, from physical on the outside to ego within.
nature and character of physical substance be discovered.
physical substance of the organism.
concocting all kinds of mixtures — be they physical or
etheric-physical organisation do not fit well together, do not
harmonize. The physical organisation, let us say for example, is too
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hand and the bodily-physical nature on the other hand. Suppose we are
inpouring of the astral body and I organisation into the physical
the ether body and physical body. But the construction of his own
the physical body and ether body. We must come to their help. And for
into the physical and ether bodies — and, in fact, also on the
physical body, glides smoothly into it. When therefore you have a
ether and physical bodies, arsenic baths will be your obvious remedy.

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rights dive right down into the physical body. Instead of this,
your physical body, so that you no longer had it pulsating there in
its entirety within your physical body, then that astral body of
loosens itself from the physical and etheric — it may be still
body becomes to any extent independent of the physical and ether
etheric and physical bodies.
you see, he is backward in the development of his whole physical
which the physical organisation ought to be particularly active —
just in this period the physical organisation has in his case been
inactive. Let me remind you of what I said about the physical
physical organism. For it is the ether body that is active now, and
purely animal instincts of the physical organism. He was greedy, and
physical organism. For as he does so, forces of growth will begin at
the same time to insinuate themselves, as it were, into this physical
own physical organism. E (Eh, as in gate) is particularly helpful
organism, with the result that the physical organism also becomes
difficulty in diving down into the ether and physical bodies. A
it were, upon the physical organism the acid influences it has
received. But if it has not entered rightly into the physical
journey into the physical body. It still has difficulty in returning,
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the physical and the ether body. The child hit out around him with
inability to dive down into the physical body. If it is very marked,

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world. Astral body of this boy has not penetrated into physical.
baths to help astral harmonise with physical and etheric. Mustard and
far enough into the physical world for him to be able to appreciate
find his way far enough into the physical world for him to be able to
physical plane to develop a sense for any moral judgement other than:
daytime or at night. The connection of astral with physical body is
itself into the ether and physical bodies in a harmonious manner. To
relationships of astral body, ether body and physical body. Then, to
Physical body

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physical organisation. He was given into your care comparatively
very outset his ether body and his physical body offer resistance;
ether and physical bodies set up a powerful resistance. What should
plant, are to be used when the physical body and etheric body refuse
particularly weak. The physical body and the ether body reacted to

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we have here a case where the physical origin of the trouble is
proper organic relation between physical body and ether body; astral
body and ego have begun to enter into the physical and ether body,
the lower organisation — ether body and physical body.
in his physical body for rest and quiet. The first thing to be done
it will be very good if you can bring such a child even physically
physical body, etheric body, sentient body, which last we then bring
strength in his ether body, and correspondingly less in his physical
physical body. In connection with the etheric body we find that the
Physical Body — Sun
the model of the physical body, which comes from the parents.

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only etheric and physical content. Plant becomes more spiritual in
children, having regard to the whole relationship of their physical
the very young child, physical and spiritual are intimately bound up
takes effect physically alone. The spiritual influence of a substance
only the physical and etheric organisation. Hence the harmful effect
the root has a strongly physical and etheric relation to the
flabby and shows obvious affinity to physical substance, then that
have, as you know, to begin with, our physical body, which derives
activities do work together in the right way. Just as in the physical

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brings forth the plants, the animals and the physical being of man out

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to view this world as of equal validity with the physical sense world.
just as a man feels that he is changed by physical events in the
the physical sense world, should at the same time maintain that the
earthly depths; physically he lives on the surface of the Earth.
physically. He immersed himself in the soul-spiritual element, and
after the physical body was turned to dust. In the light of spiritual
the natural-physical forces, the force must once more awaken in man
thought stems from physical blossoming, it will become possible to
— into the course of the year as the outcome of physical

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surrendered, given over to the outer spiritual-physical world. Their
of man on Earth which depends on the declining physical life. Whenever
we think, the physical matter in our nerves is destroyed; the thought
works on the one side and the physical-material on the other. The
rhythm: a physical-material, a spiritual, a working-in-each-other of
the physical-material and the spiritual: a soul element.
list in succession physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego,
according to the number three: physical body, ether body, astral body,
physical-material life are present as a duality, and the rhythmic

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with his physical-etheric-astral being. In that period man felt the
some sort of experiment in the physics or chemistry laboratory, what

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idea of other worlds lying beneath or behind the physical world is
Imagination is far more inwardly mobile and flexible than our physical
objects. When the veil formed by the physical world is broken through,
spiritual world, the feeling arises that we are outside the physical
different relationship to the physical body; it is a relationship such
as we otherwise feel to our eyes or ears. The physical body in its
very soon realize that, properly speaking, it is not the physical but
the ether-body that is the real organ of perception, The physical body
the physical body just as in ordinary life we are related to our ears
This feeling of being outside the physical body is an experience
spirit-and-soul we are outside the physical and etheric bodies during
physical body quite different from that to which we are accustomed in
physical body is an experience that will arise in human beings more
whole impression made by the physical world is very strong, these
more intangible than that of being physically strangled. It does not,
takes effect in the physical body, it tends to break up the physical
ether-body moulds and shapes the physical form of man. But as soon as
physical plane, he comes into contact with the Sphinx-nature. At this
wither. But because the organization and functions of the physical
permeate the physical in the right way — the physical body too will
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our time. Let us take one example. Various physical processes are to
physical processes. The materialist studies what goes on in the body
phenomena of what is going on all the time as physical processes. This
the physical world, these processes are united with the physical body,
anatomist or physiologist who investigates merely the physical
away the physical body and turned our attention to the etheric body,
the human being of physical space. As you see, even here we can widen

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When we saw last time how the physical spatial body of man owes its
of man when we pass from the physical to the etheric body. The etheric
body may be regarded as the shaper of the physical body. At the
foundation of our physical organism — and embedded at the same time
well as in the physical body. Man as etheric being — and it is
in so far as he is not physical human being. I refer to the activities
So long as we regard man in respect of his physical body alone, we do
does the physical body give us any indication of what is in man's
physical world we come into a world where the law of change prevails
Not only, therefore, is the form of the physical body of man called
physical body. Not until the time of Jupiter will the Ego be able to
been able to have perceptions in his physical body, but he would not
fully into the etheric body. Only in the physical body can we
when the etheric body is to some extent loosened from the physical body.
consciousness, his etheric body is properly in his physical body and
the physical body, and then this emancipated etheric body can enter
experience in the physical body in normal life. Such an experience
want to be drawn into my physical body,” and they help us to find the
in the physical body; no, we see it imaginatively, in pictures.
the longing for the physical body and the help that the Nature spirits
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foodstuffs that produce sugar. These peoples have weak physical

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physical, etheric and astral bodies, kama manas, manas, buddhi and so
a spiritual world, because the physical world of the senses with all
getting round that! All the proofs were there in the physics
spiritual world intermingles with the physical through the soul of a

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which looked quite natural in the physical world but which,
metaphysical conception of the world. In the 1880s there were echoes
more physical, down-to-earth, material. The two approaches are in a
beings develop in early life in a way which makes physical
a way which involved real parallel development of the physical and

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the spiritual world became known because physical letters came from a
source which did not lie within the physical world. Such documents
contemporary physics defends this law unconditionally as one of its
into the physical world, and then there are those things which he has
because it does not recognize that at certain levels physical and
functions. But the physical life is also amateurishly conceived,
because it is observed purely in its outer physical aspects and there
physical life, and above all in the human organism. When these two
within human beings by some particularly characteristic physical
physical research and intellectual knowledge but, on the other hand,
spiritual world entered the physical world in the last third of the

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Spiritual Truths and the Physical World
of the physical world; she was able to discuss aspects of this
physical-sensory forces.
the physical world they cannot describe this feeling because nothing
that their dreams should really reveal more than the physical world.
see depicted in the physical world is all very nice, but it does not
from the physical world. They can only catch a glimpse of it when
provokes a persistent subconscious fear that their physical bodies no
man is after them! But in a larger context ones physical body is no

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of course, people leading their physical lives have no idea that this

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way as modern physicists calculate light in terms of wave lengths, he
weight of modern science postulated that while of course the physical
physical entity; the next model, which was even more complex, would

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done when physics and astronomy had led them to look for atomic

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the physical world in a spiritual way. By making use of Goethe's
has become purely a business in which physical mathematics is simply
metaphysical conceptions, we have the divine spiritual principle here
the divine spirit in physical phenomena, through primitive
the stars and see physical worlds but nothing else. At the same time
evolution of physical beings with a certain consistency. That had to

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astral body are outside our physical and etheric body. In
are very close to our physical body and etheric body in a
body into the physical body and etheric body they bring with
physical and etheric body, and if you have ever woken up with
inner harmony of the physical and etheric body. You do in
etheric body really is as though your physical body were
character when he comes back into his physical and etheric
brought back into their physical and etheric bodies the kind

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quite clear to those for whom the ideas of physical body,
because it is the most outward, is the physical body. But
this physical body is permeated and penetrated and filled by
the etheric body. The physical body might be simply called a
etheric body, which dwells in the physical body and, as you
know, also extends beyond the limits of the physical body and
inhabits the physical body. For human imaginative perception,
it can be said: Occupying the physical body and extending, as
it does, its activity and rhythmical play into this physical
the physical body into a vertical position. Here we see the
formation of the physical body.
then the etheric body is drawn up higher, then the physical
force in the etheric body. The physical hand follows the
the etheric body and then passed on to the physical body are
being, that which happens to our physical body through the
boundary of our physical body, and if we push the inner
to the physical body, outside this boundary, then
attached to the physical body. Looking once more at any work
found within the human physical body.
physical body, not outside ourselves this time, but down from
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were imprinted on his physical body during the ancient Saturn
period. Yesterday we discussed how these laws in the physical
Saturn laws of his physical body; if he immerses himself
pressed down one step into the physical body. Just as that
which lives in the physical body, when compelled into the
the physical body. In enjoying sculpture we abandon the
being, living as though we had only the physical body, and in
the physical body an expression of the etheric body; in such
the case with our outward physical experience. Then a moment
the physical human form created during the Saturn and Sun
sculpture that really stand before our physical eyes as the
consisted only of the physical human body which contained
within the etheric and physical bodies alone, without the ego
etheric and physical bodies, he feels and experiences only
physical bodies. The ancient Greeks were still dimly aware of
torments one, is to place it before oneself in a physical
experiences in the physical world; your daily routine of love
physical life alone. If we bear in mind this ideal of

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physical plane and is equipped only with a knowledge given
the physical plane. This legend brings us tidings of ancient
physical plane, in the form of earth, water, air and fire,
back into the physical world he remembers what the spirits of
bodily nature that lives on the physical plane, a soul nature
Brotherliness is the most important ideal for the physical
life. We can speak of fraternity on the physical plane and
physical plane and which affects the human soul from the
physical plane; liberty with regard to all that comes to

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yonder to this physical-material world, and we shall climb
through the tone out of the physical-material world into the
physical world, and that we are sucked up by the spiritual
out of the physical world into the spiritual world through
you were weak in the physical sense world! if you only climb
the physical to the spiritual world through the second, it is
certainly could not do in a physical-material house, for the
separates us from the physical-material world, and in which
very weak in the physical-material world, where its spiritual
the physical-material world. If you enter through the second,
our physical world. The advocate's fainting fit was this kind
physical-material world into the spiritual world; and there
physical-material world, the spirit can descend to us.

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being consists of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral
so that we can take it all in at a glance like physics
world becomes a desolate place when the physicist says to you
the teacher all this time is not in his external physical
not take on physical form until our next incarnation. For all

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and that what we nowadays call man's completed physical body
maya of the physical plane, but with regard to the truth and
what is actually behind physical maya. Here the moral element
breath. The physical part of it dissolves. But what is
genie, which, in the case of steamy breath, has a physical,
an etheric and an astral part, only the physical is not
astral, an etheric and finally a physical body condensed to
an etheric, an astral and a physical body, and this physical
creature, with a physical body, etheric body and astral body
an ego, just as in the Moon period our physical, etheric and
physical body, at the watery stage, of course, but they do
being before he makes his physical entry into the world. They
physical science preserves an instinct for is that, in older
knowledge that is restricted to the physical body. Our
than the kind that is restricted to the physical body. But
man has to lift his knowledge out of the physical body. And
of the physical body, and we concentrate the kind of thinking
we do by means of the instrument of the physical body until
the moment the thought dies, then we slip out of the physical
of our physical body. What we have to do to maintain our
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have really observed it clairvoyantly, that the physical also
physical, an etheric and an astral body, the smoke also has
different way from the physical: the physical part will go
the physical part of the smoke rising while the etheric part
etheric and his physical body. But I have already emphasised
outer physical world in a way that is proper for our earth
indulgence in mere physical pleasure will also have to go in
conditions prevail during sleep. Man is outside his physical
with the longing for his physical body. This is precisely
what sleep consists of, acquiring a longing for his physical
he is asleep the longing to return to his own physical body
man does not keep it outside his physical and etheric body,
hold of his physical and etheric body and comes into touch
which lived physically in their people. These prophets of
the physical body during sleep, was called prophetic
the physical body from outside, in loving longing, nor an
enjoying of the physical body from inside. Both these
must remain bound to the body that belongs to him in physical
the death of physical life, then the proper condition has

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physical aspect. Every time the blood is expelled something of a
does not become physical, because no conception has taken place. The
spiritual-soul element remains without becoming a physical human
about that the human being became a physical being in water. Formerly
he was a physical being only in air. During this Moon condition we
the potentiality of the physical human being is there, and gradually

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described, but not as a physical being. He was there in a very fine

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physical, as they are indeed physical. If everything in our
there all the time, but as a spiritual being, not a physical being.
evolve as a physical being earlier. We have said that in the air
knowledge. Physical research only confirmed it later. People realize

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spiritually. Physically — that is, in a body — man first
anyone imagine that man, physical man as he now is on the physical

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know what is within man, came to have knowledge of the human physical
within them the spiritual nature of the physical body.

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weak physical forces. Then there are certain peoples who eat many

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peoples imagine man to have been a physically perfect being
conception is that the physical man who went about on the earth in
is unable to do so. But we have only to read what physicians of old
in Greece knew far more than is known by our modern materialistic physicians.
now his spirit is, as it were, embodied in the physical substance of
trained to look after the physical needs of children — well,

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that materialistic physicists would be immensely astonished if they
transport the physicists could reach the sun, they would be amazed to
connected with the physical in man.

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investigation is possible — it can never be done with physical

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issues from the sun will be physically obliterated for the earth. And

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in physics, at that time when he sat for his medical examination at
physicists of today imagine. They would be very astonished if they

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knowledge of the human physical body in an entirely spiritual way.
physical body.

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peoples imagined that man as a physical being was originally perfect.
physical man who used to go about on earth in primitive times looked
nutritional matters. Physical science is unable to do so. But we have
only to read what physicians of old had to say, and rightly
modern materialistic physicians. We grow to respect, deeply respect,
incorporated in the physical substance of his face. This, is a
physical needs of children — then people will develop this

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at work there, though this cannot be physically proved. The nectar

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of all, the ordinary physical body, which we can touch, secondly the

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bees, and wasps and ants, work continually as small physicians
with the lifeless substances of the woods. Even physical science as it

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about between the astral body and the physical body which were
too physical. Therefore these bees gather themselves together, and

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strongly engages the physical body in the perceiving.
of his ether body and in part, even of his physical body. Not
then this ether body also brings the physical body to swing
that has been pressed into the ether body and the physical
operate here in the physical world exclusively for the

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physical body is merely an image of grasping with the ether
“physical body” — well, it is thick;

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hear even physically nothing else than what they have been
used to hearing for decades. Even physically — not
merely with the soul — even physically they hear

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the patient — on the physical body. It is, for example,
the physical in the way I have demonstrated in the second

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government provides the physical man with a pension, so the

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in physics, chemistry, biology, and will inevitably spread to the other
sciences. In astronomy, chemistry, physics and physiology we find
The principles of physics must be introduced into political science
is a kind of ‘political physics,’ and he set out to build
principles of chemistry, physics and physiology. Saint-Simon considered
metaphysics, whereas the quest of the new age, even in the sphere of
of metaphysical traditions, devoid of real life, and it is this element
priesthood. This, in his view, was superseded by the metaphysical phase,
when men elaborated systematic thoughts relating to things super-physical.
kind of political physics, in line with the idea of Saint-Simon. Science
But there must be an ascent from physics, chemistry, biology, to sociology,
and thus, following the same methods, to a kind of political physics.
work only in the processes of my physical body as it was before birth.
physical, social life.
from the outer, physical nature of the body to the element of soul in

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nature by means of the various sciences — mechanics, physics,
of the Association of German Scientists and Physicians to deliver his

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physical world of the senses we can use the concepts we form in interaction
to us. We stand within time just as do the external objects. Our physical

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to full consciousness in coming into contact with an external, physical
thereby create a world, for example a world of metaphysical atoms, molecules,
attitude with which physics, for example, teaches one to treat the melting
one can acquire by observing simple physical phenomena according to

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insubstantial metaphysics, which arises only when we allow our thinking
is not a physical body but an etheric body informing man's physical
physical body.

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or molecular world conceptions tending toward the metaphysical but call
one makes the physical body one's own through the activity of the ego
the spirit replaces the vacuous, insubstantial, metaphysical world of
order into this world as we are able to bring to our physical environment.
just as much self-possession and confidence as in the physical world.
the contemporary physical sciences, with their greatest riddles. He
No wonder that it had to end in the condition that his physician, for
before Nietzsche, this ruin of a man, this physical wreck, with this
itself: for years the physical organism was filled by a soul-spirit

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which man's being is striving to free itself from the physical organism,
call forth illness in the physical organism. And it would be a grave
physical world. If you wish actually to perceive within the physical
to the Same spiritual content of consciousness. And just as in physical
the physical world of the senses must be replaced by spiritual perception.
other than what is active within the physical body during the first
excarnating from the physical body and striving for Inspiration, as
who feel, even to a physical degree, something inexplicable happening
states of soul, even if they have not manifested themselves yet physically.
to every sort of thing, because the physical symptoms of claustrophobia,
discarnate soul down into the physical body. We must allow it to immerse
in the physical organism between the change of teeth and puberty. And
then emerges as physical love, as sexual desire, is nothing other than
physical body. Then he attains an initial experience of what manifests
in the physical body, one descends into the physical body and experiences
these pictures separate, however, and allows them to slip into the physical
body, confronting the physical body not as an object but as something
subjective, brings the sensation of space down into the physical body
with him The astral thereby coalesces with the physical to a greater
And how is it that we avoid bringing the ego down into the physical
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interaction with percepts of the external world, with physical-sensory
childhood to organize the physical body, emancipates itself, becomes
express myself thus — with the organization of the physical body.
the external, physical-sensory world. We must also develop such faculties
is consciously withdrawn from the physical body, however, something
with the physical body in a more conscious manner. I said this morning
egotistically, and not lovingly, into the physical body, for this is
to lay hold of the physical body in the wrong way. I described the natural
process of laying hold of the physical body between the seventh and
they might not have been able to bind the soul-spirit to the physical
of an entirely physical nature have to be employed in such cases. And
soul-spirit and the physical body. This could drive one into agoraphobia
the physical body in a pathological manner — even if one is not
a connection between his soul-spirit and his physical body: by delving
physical body and also contained certain personalities — I came
too closely bound to the physical body.
the soul-spirit emerges from the physical body but rather the path that
physical organism by consciously grasping the physical body. We see
the picture-forming activity sent inward, so that the physical organism
deeply and unconsciously, with the physical body, so that too strong
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is fully immersed, so that one feels free of the conditions of physical
metaphysical explanations in terms of atoms and molecules, but has instead
entity, which dips down in a way into the physical body, awakens the
described to observe this permeation of the physical organism by the
of teeth and puberty, this is not something originating in the physical
than warmth; light something other than light in the physical sense;
sound is something other than physical sound. Through our sense impressions
the ether-waves, atoms, and so on of which modern physics and physiology
and not abstract metaphysics, that we attain knowledge of the spirit
social contact with other human beings. In everyday physical existence
physical body and his soul-spirit will soon discover how the forces
were otherwise we could never in this physical life become social beings
physical substance but only when we unite ourselves with the air and
laid aside the physical body. For to experience the breathing process
he has the same experience as he has physically in breathing in and
out. Inhalation and exhalation are physical experiences: when they are
of the physical breathing of the yogi. He achieves this by developing
of the development of physical breathing, we in the West say: development

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— physical body, etheric body, and so on, with which
substances — and in general what is physical — as
still consider the physical body in its relation to the head.
This physical body is present in the head in a different way,
you could say, from the physical element that is an imprint
astral and etheric bodies both convey their physical
imprints. The physical body alone, which of course we receive
what is the physical body for the head — a physical
process, a real physical process
But the physical forces concentrated here extend over the whole
head. Here, in this physical part of the human head formation, is
a real, primary physical process. It is not an expression of
physical head process, however, we really have a duality, a
opposed to the physical process at work in the formation of
the formation of the physical human head, we must realize
thereby works upon this physical human head formation. At the
essential kinship to the process taking place in the physical
cooperates polarically in the human physical head.
described when speaking about the actual physical head is
physical body and etheric body.
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Yesterday we described the physical body in such a way that
we concluded that a truly physical activity in the human
being is present only in the head. If we study the physical
an isolated activity of the physical body is present only in
there rs a more undifferentiated interaction of the physical
physical body alone has as yet no imprint in the head; it
effect in the head is purely physical. In the other members
within human nature there is no purely physical activity.
properly only if not interpreted too physically, in the
erect. The physical imprint of the ego is in all this. You
by a merely physical science. However, if you have the
ask, “What would it be like if one studied the physical
in physical substances. Thus when a chemical synthesis takes
course, directly accessible as such to physical perception.
about ether from merely physical observations. They have
that the ether cannot be reached by physical observations,
imprint in the physical, sense-perceptible world, what
are studying him physically. The water — and by this I
represent the physical activity that is specially developed
is a human being really?” In so far as he is physical,
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etheric and physical bodies work intimately together,
cooperating as a unity. There is no longer a sum of physical
cooperation of the etheric and the physical. A process of
physician. He felt that this experience forced him to such a
into account here. Of course, the physician is very seldom in
physical demonstrations, even though these results are

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clinging to the physical and etheric organs, especially to
investigator because, when sleep should appear, the physical
physical bodies underlie the acquisition of speech and all
physical, the etheric, and also the astral in the human
body has a strong affinity for the physical, and especially
outer world in regard to chemistry and physics and the inner
“anti-physics” overlap. This is the essential

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physical body. I have already mentioned that, by means of a
with the physical — you may speak of
“arsenize” strongly in their organic physical
ego) on the one hand and the etheric and physical bodies on
nurtured by the physical and etheric influences, begin to be
properly. A proliferation of physical and etheric activity
body and the ego must work into the physical and etheric
physical body remain active by themselves. There then arises
physical organism, its becoming brittle, is basically the
continually interacts with the physical through the blood
tells us. For in the blood the outer physical part of the
physical body can be ruined by such an incorrect interaction:
body with it) and the physical body (which then draws the
is occurring in the physical body and the ego. They resist,
physical organism, when the ego intervenes in it, can be
when the ego intervenes strongly in the physical organism,
to the physical. You could deduce this from everything I have
psychological and the physical.
process in the physical and etheric bases of the human

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themselves physically in this water-organism. The forces of
fluid-etheric and on the solid-physical. Therefore nutritive
and the physical-solid, whereas the main respiratory activity
within the physical organism is a cooperation of the ego with
warmth can work into the physical. The ego must always go

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from the head, i.e., as outer physical effects. Rather we
working more toward the physical, becoming something that
and physically with the outer world. In the iris root there
is something that stimulates this physical activity very
something that, through its physical effect, has an influence
physical effect does not manifest as early as other products.
This aspect does not appear in its physical effect until it
wax, which has a very strong physical effect; and also
resins, which also unfold strong effects in the physical. The
strong physical effects. Resin and wax are thereby very

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a physical influence, but also an etheric imprint, an astral
the human being before he prepares to descend into physical
physician, who is always swayed in his therapeutic rationale
of the ego into the physical organism and, while making the
physical — can be represented schematically as follows.
the physical by means of a force acting polarically, for
etheric and then to let it radiate into the physical body.

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Curative Eurythmy (for physicians)
otherwise than point to deeper physical and spiritual
physical world.
occasion to draw the physicians' attention to the fact that
patients and will only advise the physicians themselves, so
that the people who function as physicians within our

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physical plane, but have to be conserved for the spiritual
Agamemnon is numbered. The figure of Nestor, whose physical
our mind, a picture arises of Hellenism on the physical
spiritual world and maintaining the physical body. Through
which a man is torn from the physical body like the boy who
was torn from our midst on the physical plane. And we honour,
we celebrate, his physical departure in a worthy manner if,

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in the physical world; from the guidance and leadership of
physics receives its stamp from Newton, but how, in Goethe,

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produced in the physical world. In the physical world, fear

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physical plane may seem the simpler, are for the occultist
the physical plane but is still permeated with astrological,
liberated from its physical foundation. Then one sees what
In the Roman world above them, in the physical light of day,
do not worship physically in the catacombs, spiritually we

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observation is confined to the physical plane we recognise
upon it on the physical plane; the creative power of colour
something that is not to be found on the physical plane,
physical plane. But colour must be freed from objects if the
heavens. In ancient Greece, the map of the physical
still, in essentials, a spiritual experience of the physical
experienced something of the spiritual Being; whose physical
investigate it by means of physical records. — But
will know as little on the physical plane of all that we now
will be physical men who will need to discover Goethe in this
which I have just spoken more as a physical process, also
where men were standing physically when the first ship sailed
progression on the physical plane. But we can also follow the
future. The geographical, physical evolution of the earth
physical evolution must have an end, so too will spiritual
something. — One must forget that any physical
structure is there. The physical element of the paintings
Science will be as the sun and the stars are in physical
evolution as a physical planet, this ideal will not be
realised. The physical earth will have come to an end before

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develop outwards into the physical and etheric. You will
‘this signifies the physical body, that the etheric
nowhere to be found in the outer physical world. If anything
experiences and events of the physical plane.
the physical plane.

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elsewhere in the physical world, represent an onward flowing
the outer physical world than melodies are present there.
These forms are walls that have become living. Physical walls
physical preponderates and that in the small cupola we have
different from what physics imagines it to be. The principles
physical to the spiritual.

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his physical image. The essence of the construction of the
Temple, we tried, last time, to grasp the purely physical
enters the physical world. It is an unity because it ever and
forces. To-day physicists only speak of purely physical
and the like. The Earth, however, is not merely physical body
upright. The physical legs have their junction above, but the

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of the external physical world than of mere speculation. Your
‘natural laws’ of the outer physical world, and
merely physical and material actuality and feel himself

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exist for the horse as a physical being, but only as a
Physical body,
great mathematician, or a great metaphysician, but he does
the red and yellow: by night, so far as the physical human

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strongly engages the physical body in the perceiving.
of his ether body and in part, even of his physical body. Not
then this ether body also brings the physical body to swing
that has been pressed into the ether body and the physical
operate here in the physical world exclusively for the

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physical body is merely an image of grasping with the ether
“physical body” — well, it is thick;

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hear even physically nothing else than what they have been
used to hearing for decades. Even physically — not
merely with the soul — even physically they hear

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the patient — on the physical body. It is, for example,
the physical in the way I have demonstrated in the second

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government provides the physical man with a pension, so the

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soul is what we have in the physical movement of arms, hands

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be said that the flames which our physical eyes saw a year
barrier in place of the physical barrier we tried to erect
draw the line morally and no longer physically. We sell the

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man lives in the physical realm in his system of metabolism

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the etheric body you can say: The effects on the physical
distinguish between the physical body in which all the forces

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what we see with our physical eyes therefore does not prevent

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externally we do not need to keep things physically secret if

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physics. All these abysses will be bridged if scientific work

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terrible to be found in the physical world: The envy of the
without ever needing to appear on earth in a physical body.
has to take place down below, here in physical human life.
divine cultus simultaneously with the actual physical event
Hibernia. There was no physical communication. Nevertheless,
in the physical world the Mysteries receded more and more.
temple at Ephesus, the paths to be trodden were physical
profoundly hidden from any external physical experience. Many
could not be found by any external, physical human eye. But
the heavens speaking out of gently shining physical eyes. In
external, physical eyes can see. The very centre of the earth
your physical body. But look around you at your own
Your physical body is incapable of this. If your soul departs
dust. The earth has no power over your physical body. It has
to maintain the shape of your physical body; it has to
dissolve it into dust. Your physical body is not of this
earth. Your physical body is of supreme spirituality. To
your physical body. Your physical body does not belong to the
this your physical body lives your etheric body. The day will
come when your physical body is taken in by the earth in
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their physical and etheric bodies in sleep and live in the
having left behind their physical and etheric bodies between
to the physical world. Entering rightly into the spiritual
physical world at any moment with the full ability to stand
returning to the physical world you would be void of thoughts
earth in a physical body; therefore when you return to the
physical, sense-perceptible world sufficient strength will
the times, they want to apply solely to the physical,
the physical, sense-perceptible world. But those souls who
— today we may hope that when the physical Goetheanum
the physical Goetheanum is only the external symbol for our

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techniques and the physical materials at their disposal for
laws governing the physical world of nature, the laws of consonance
the physical medium he had by this time learned to handle.
manner characteristic of ancient Oriental art; the physical laws
master the physical laws inherent in the artistic medium employed

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actions, it projects into the physical world, in an entirely
cultus is based on speaking words in the physical world in a way that
limited to what the eyes see when they look physically at ritualistic
nature permeate ordinary physical forces. A super-sensible event takes
place in the physical act that pictures it.
united with the spiritual world by means of the physically
words and actions bring to our experience on the physical plane a
into the physical world here below the line. In the case of an
anthroposophical group, experience on the physical plane is lifted by
physical world with its words and actions. The anthroposophical group
consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, etc., and lives
physical matter, etheric forces, astral forces, and they
physical, etheric and astral bodies. But one can also read
same relation to the world of ordinary physical concepts as the latter
awaken out of the ordinary physical realm in just the way one wakes
out of one's dream world into the physical. It is the attitude one
physical world through the stimulus of light and sound, etc.

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physical world where he finds himself during his waking life.
experiences they convey in pictures borrowed from the physical plane.
also isolated from our physical and etheric bodies. Dreams clothe
of all. When people are together on the physical plane, they
day-waking state, into situations on the physical plane. There are
conceive the physical world as it is normally conceived in dream life
state, and it is due to some illness in the physical or etheric
physical earth life? In that case, his relationship to his fellowman
have in the physical world is projected into one's conceiving of the
his dream consciousness into the physical world, so does a person who
mind appropriate to the physical world become to some degree an
fact that man has a physical, an etheric and an astral body, lives
or truth of physical reality. Indeed, we see this evidenced every day
seek proof from dream pictures about things going on in the physical
application only on the physical plane, proves them. One need only
an egotist when one projects dream conceptions into physical
physical plane they look to anthroposophy to prove it.
consciousness applicable to the ordinary physical world is carried
picture, just as a person dreaming on the physical plane can behave
carried over from life on the physical plane can say to an associate
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and the Physical Constitution of Humans,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des
and the Physical Constitution of Humans,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des
and the Physical Constitution of Humans
thoughts in Western physics. One finds with Darwin a

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the foundation and support of the physical world, but that
the physical world — with the senses — we look
course of our development within the physical body,
from our sphere of observation during physical life, for
the etheric body and physical body. Between sleeping and
physical waves — and naturally the corresponding
form of expression, with the external physical and etheric
this self-movement of the physical and etheric bodies
Ego is continually coming into contact with the physical
the etheric body and the physical body in this way, the
physical body, and the human being becomes aware of himself
etheric body and the physical body. But he also, frequently
I tried with all the arguments of physics, philosophy and

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body, astral body and Ego are loosened from the physical
condition in which, on the one side, the physical body is
physical plane prematurely in some incarnation and the
physical life.
less in the spiritual world than in the physical world
assumed great significance in physical science since the
way, upon the connection between the physical world and the
physical world is connected with the spiritual world, and
that the spiritual world is behind the physical world.
which lies behind the physical world. Art that is born of
leaves the physical plane, and karma has not taken the
their lives. It is wiped away from the physical events of
physical human being and has only assumed the form of the
physical human being because it has been enclosed within
the human physical body. The Ego and the astral body have
not this physical form of the human being; but the death
the physical form of the human being. The death spectrum
soul has been freed from the physical body it loses this
human form. The physical body, through its forces, has
spectrum is outside the physical body, it takes on other
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physical world and we must, as it were, adjust our relation
something to expression in the outer physical world, but
in the physical body. He is removed from them for they were
incorporated in the physical body. He is above all removed
since he lacks the physical body, he can no longer carry
compared with the moment of birth into physical human life
remember back to the physical birth in the physical body.
ordinary earthly faculties in the physical body behold the
the human being from the physical-sensible sheath, it
physical-sensible life. In order to be thoroughly
resulting from the last abstractions of the outer physical
significance for the physical sense world here. For when we
for ourselves in our physical body there condenses at the
physical world we exert ourselves to find a thought for the
incorporated in the physical body.
here in the physical world is in a way the weakest in man,
in the physical world is the strongest of all,
through the portal of death, which here, in the physical
the physical world which only actually becomes reality when
in the physical world can form some kind of connection with
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and the Physical Constitution of Humans, published in German as,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des
and the Physical Constitution of Humans,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des
soul-spiritual and the bodily-physical within the human being
within this bodily physical human existence the
spiritual-physical exists and then they search for how the two
exists between the soul-spiritual and the physical body?
soul-spiritual element was nowhere to be found in the physical
a kind of consequence of the physical body. This point of view
on physical origins, on the entire physical organisation.
for physically, will accordingly be retarded in his or her
with physical bodily degeneration, likewise the spirit-soul
shape and manner of his or her existence within the physical
paralysing conditions through physical substances administered
available as physical research, proves that in all acts of
function of the physical bodily nature. Yes, those researchers
human being is a physical bodily being, and out of the physical
that human beings are to be imagined as bodily physical beings
moral world view and the physical world view.
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and the Physical Constitution of Humans, published in German as,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des
and the Physical Constitution of Humans,
Die Bruecke Zwischen der Weltgeistigkeit und dem Physichen des
the cosmos, as well as the physical aspect to the spiritual
must be linked to physicality, if it is to come to an all
prohibits the creation of a bridge between the physical and the
refer to physically inherited features. We are continuously
outer or inner physical or soul traits simply inherited from
bound to the physical, how can such a method of examination
physical body. When we have a person present in front of us, we
generation to generation of further developing physical
physically inherited features. Taking this as the total
souls who had gone through their physical existence earlier
observing what is physically inherited from one generation to
expresses itself as physically inherited results. However it
follows is not merely their physicality brought forward, but
reincarnated soul and in physical features which are truly
on the physical-anthropological results of generations. A map

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actual, physical fire sparks should descend on this Dornach

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the physical body, within the whole human being). This mood of wonder
speech, the astral body and ego leave the etheric and physical bodies,
I am going with my astral body out of my physical body, I am speaking
spiritual being too, while forsaking my physical body), this is just
the sounds, of the astral body remaining within the physical body (indeed,
we are here made particularly aware of the physical body), this produces
awareness of the physical body. When you speak the sound ah,
much as it can into your physical body. This entails a feeling of well-being.
like the flowing of some sparkling fluid through your physical body.
What is the kind of feeling that now arises in the physical body? Ah
in ah and in a, the physical body is taken hold of
sound ah transposed into the physical realm, which a eurythmist or someone
the minor projected into the physical plane produces fever; it is the
being ill in the physical world. From all this, you will see that the
and the experience of being within — both in relation to the physical

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in the astral body and ego has its physical manifestation in air and

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and the seventh as actually lying outside the physical body, so that
We die. The physical body remains, but it disintegrates. Why does it

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we stand with our physical form, whether slim or short, fat or thin
stands before us in the physical world it is only the corpse, or hardly
more than the corpse, that may be seen. Now in music, the physical form
that with the bar line there should be an emphasis of the physical form,
the ego, is brought into play. It is really true to say: ‘As physical

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the physical human being (which really only ‘sounds’ in beat) to the
physical human being.

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movements resonating in the vocal organs, which you permit the physical
with the physical eyes, and then you see another, etheric being, with

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we saw that in its more physical, bodily aspect, movement springs from
carries within it the central organ of feeling, the heart. And the physical
physicist comes along and speaks of the frequency and the pattern of
of music. It may be left to the physicist. [51] That element of music
physical and etheric bodies. If he were to do this in an inartistic
go out of his physical body without sufficient preparation, he would
of musical sound, of Melos) permits us to pass out of the physical
is a continuous rising out of the physical body, an identification of
we sink more deeply into the physical body with the astral body and
ego. We are united more with the physical element. Descending pitch
signifies a closer connection than normal with the physical element.

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our ego and astral body are outside our physical and etheric bodies.
It is true enough that the ego and the astral body have left the physical
by his physical form is left empty. I will resort to a trivial comparison
in a fog or mist, and the physical human beings are the empty dark spaces

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habits. But these etheric bodies are what the physical body is based
trainer of the physical body — or perhaps I had better say that
say, then, that the physical body, for example, the hand, is here:
into the etheric body what then becomes habit there. But the physical
into the physical body, and they therefore save up the forces thus prevented
from entering the physical body. They are saved up and carried through

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during that period that are retained in present-day physical aspects

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matters to be like knife- cuts in his body, to use a physical analogy.
truths into the physical world. Only by freeing ourselves from every
is considered real from the ordinary physical standpoint can only be

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insight here on the physical plane are basically concerned with not
from ordinary knowledge about physical matters to higher types of insight.
reality it cannot be attained by living in the physical body; we must
make ourselves capable of overcoming all dependence on the physical
beyond using the physical body as our instrument. But we do still use
as we make use of our physical bodies for perceiving objects in the
physical realm.
his soul from his physical body and is using his etheric body as his
cognitive tool, what is called knowledge in the physical world, the
remains behind on the physical plane. For example, everything that a
physical plane by those who leave it to ascend into the imaginative
pictures of this world. In other words, on leaving the physical plane
on the physical plane. Please note the word direct here. We
seeker frees himself from the instrumentality of his physical body.
of living in the passive world of thinking experienced on the physical
insights, the conceptions we obtain on the physical plane as mere images
upon the physical world and doesn't enter the imaginative world; they
fall away and stay behind in the physical realm. All that is left of
by exerting thinking, but that is now left behind on the physical plane
This would represent the physical body out of which the individual ascends.
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The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World,
The Physical Body Binds Us to the Physical World,
consist of a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body, and so
Our physical bodies incorporate us into the
physical world and set us down on the physical plane. They make us resemble
responsible for the incorporation of our physical bodies into the physical
perception free themselves from their dependence upon their physical
than the physical body serves as the direct means of interrelationship
images and other knowledge acquired with the use of our physical bodies,
from using the physical body to making use of the etheric body.
use them in the sense that they carry on their activity within our physical
bodies, so that both the physical and etheric bodies are made use of
during our life on the physical plane. But we come to know what the
out of its connection with the physical body and put to use as our sole
immediately after death, when we have laid the physical body aside.
condition after death, in which we dissolve our bond with the physical
I have been saying that the physical body
binds us to everything that comes to us on the physical plane. What,
the physical realm. If, for example, a person is born with a physically
defective ear, he won't be able to become a musician. But physical defects
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Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
Death, Physical Body and Etheric Body
from perception of the external, physical world to perceiving the elemental
world next above it, you will see that the worlds from which our physical
universe and everything in it issued differ greatly from this physical
them. But we must always remember how strongly the physical world colors
even a longing, to find it resembling the physical world, a wish, at
we have grown used to in physical existence. But I have already called
physical world do not suffice to characterize the spiritual world. If
of the physical body. We know that this physical body then undergoes
So the physical body undergoes dissolution
observable fact is that the physical body disintegrates into its smallest
the physical situation, and we can speak of dissolution of this body
as it appears to physical observation.
clearly that this dissolution of the physical body is by no means merely
the process which our physical organs perceive; it has far greater significance.
the physical body. It has always been more or less the case that the
ego and astral body inhabited the physical body when people were awake.
I will draw the physical body as a vase containing them. There are other
and astral body contained here in the physical body. They are enclosed
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physical nature reflects the soul and spiritual nature seems to
When studying physics, for example, scientists have the courage
must have been connected with the physical organism before
in the child's physical organism.
working in the physical body up to the end of the first
child's physical realm. Facts speak for themselves and shed
— that is, the theory of the so-called psycho-physical
physical residues, which can then lead to rheumatism or

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serving more the physical body. This is of immense importance
seeking physical balance. But when freely moving arms and
a certain way, have the effect of producing in the physical and
the physical basis — which, naturally, is a manifestation
human being adapts the most inward physical organization to
it was definitely felt that physical features inherited from
between the part played by purely physical heredity and that of
What orthodox physical psychology maintains is perfectly
without the ground under my feet, neither can I, as a physical
enters and affects the physical organization. The attempt is
period of life a physical condition directly manifests itself
based primarily on physical aspects. In this kind of psychology

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equilibrium in the surrounding physical world. The entire,
sentient-physical behavior in imitation flows from a physical
until the change of teeth. The physical body of a newborn baby
religion in a physical, bodily guise.
especially close and intimate relationship, a physically-based
physical relationship, this deep-seated attachment, which was
fully centered within the physical body. Anyone who can observe
discover precisely in this physical response the inherent
the turmoil of life and perceive the finer nuances of physical
the entire physical body in collaboration.
working on the physical body until the change of teeth. All
three members are working in the physical body.
child's physical-religious devotion to its environment. This is
see, what has been working physically during the first period
was formerly a physically based surrender to a religious mood
has a more physical quality — a soul habit is formed when
habit in the physical realm, just as one has to distinguish
general change occurs in the physical realm and in the realm of
active in the inner sculpting of the physical body. Indeed, if
physically anchored religious quality; and after this, between
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working upon the physical organization and which now are being
physical constitution are enhanced hygienically if the teaching
the physical body. Again and again I want to point out that the
recognizes how a moral element enters the physical. Already the
solid matter make up the smallest portion of our physical body,
circulation. The physical and moral life would require separate
constitution to extend also into the physical processes of
find this unity between what has physical nature and what has
world, already passed into the material and physical world.
With the whole-word method one gains only the physical aspect.
that present definitions in physics are often not much better,
physical organization makes up the entire animal kingdom,
physical-religious relationship (I called it
at first in a physicalspiritual way, continues in a hidden
directly affect the child's physical organization through an

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the child's soul, that the human being as seen physically is
child's physical processes, concluding to a certain extent
teeth, we can look at the child's physical and etheric bodies
as still forming a homogeneous solution until the physical is
now too much soul substance might be retained by the physical
because the human physical body must be permeated by soul and
the upper region. The result is a human being whose physical
human being consists of a physical body, etheric body, astral
human being: The physical body is born at birth. It develops
physical body; they are soul and spiritual forces working in
physical matter we find that its main characteristic is its
the sense of touch. Physical matter exerts pressure.
always has the tendency to expedite physical matter out of
the etheric. Physical matter fills up space, and the etheric
to the physical and etheric bodies consists of our constantly
destroys material substance, and the physical body builds it up
and the restoration affected by the physical body.
the physical body, and with the etheric body and its
what enters the child's being physically at that time also
around the twelfth year. Also, concepts connected with physics
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gratitude lives in the physical body and must dwell in it,
love, reaching the physical level, is given only during the
physical basis of love. But one must see love in its true
moment arrives when that awakening passes into the physical
interconnections, the beginnings of physics and chemistry) into
introduce an element of grace. In geometry or physics
occasions, teachers, in their physics and geometry lessons,
human being bore too many marks of physical heredity, education
but every physical movement and every activity speaks directly
energy expended on those two physical activities. But cutting

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RÃ¶ntgen (1845–1923) German physicist, discoverer of
to the physical realm must obey physical laws. Just as an arm
spiritual, soul, and physical spheres are, in general, not even
only what the physics teacher is teaching to the seventh grade,
but also the physics teacher's experiences of the various
physical realities of the body, because spirit works in every
induce spirit and soul substance to penetrate their physical

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physical organism. Thus the nervous system is mainly organized
waking are based physically within the human organism. The
actual physical movement on the other.
effect on the child's physical health. Of course, I have chosen
physical well-being of the students, we must always allow a
certain physical and soul hygiene to be carried, as if on
curbs the melancholic tendencies from the physical side. It is
anyone who knows that spirit is working in all physical or
activity of the liver as something merely physical, but as the
working of soul and spirit brought about by physical means.
certainly does not neglect the physical aspects of education.
bent on developing the physical part of the child according to
within a child has a direct effect on his or her physical
mathematics and physics at the Waldorf school in Stuttgart.]
being — that is, the psychic, physical, and spiritual
physically, but in any case, tending toward psycho-bodily
generation to be able to properly use the physical organization
education of old people who cannot properly use their physical
will ascertain from what was said yesterday that physical
relationship between physical and spiritual will be handled

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the relevant physical organs, and partly by human thought.
the agency of physical organs, of course, as already mentioned.
particular part of the physical body is certainly a kind of
It lives in everything expressed outwardly, in every physical
contained within the realm of the physical body, can turn into
with physical movements. It is precisely this singing

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The point is to make a proper physics where
Now today we have a physicist's
to the physicists: there the Newtonian theory of color is
color-theory, the theory of the physicists, we painters can do
physicists' theory of color together, but the painter does! He
Goodness! We don't bother about the physicists: they say
teaching of the physicists. That is in fact uncomfortable,
Physics, then one has the physicists' whole pack of hounds upon
physicists explain the blue of the sky. Naturally, if I start
Yes, with all that the physicists have, their little

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representations, which refers to a psycho-physical parallelism
related to the physical, to the corporeal organism. As a result
puberty. When we consider the physical correlation
through physical inspiration, through breathing. This is a very
breathing and the physical body. The greatest part of our
brings physicality into an inner movement which is related to
of the physical breathing processes is puberty.
the rhythmical in the physical correlation which comes from
which has its physical correlation, we discover only at this
body from the physical body during sleep. The child namely
becomes intimately connected with his physical and etheric
participants of the functions of the ether and physical
separation between the soul-physical and the soul-spiritual
physical is that which the human being takes again with him or
applicable to the senses, physical world, and one thus breaks
free from the physical sensory world, in other words,
from the spiritual world wants to enter our physical world. I
within the physical, that the spiritual world can be grasped

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reads philosophical text books: the state of extension of physical objects

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— lay aside the physical corporeality, the bodily spirit-being,

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physical phenomenon. Here we have a bridge thrown between two phenomena
essential for any true judgment of life on the physical plane.
can also take effect on the physical plane, to the extent that we had

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declines during the course of physical life, it is just during his physical
physical life.
does he fulfill his true task here in the course of physical life. People
soul development upon the physical organism that a human being has today
his so-called physical development into his fifties, in the way that
of life man is dependent upon his physical development. We know the
then no longer dependent upon his physical organism. Starting from his
times. In ancient times the physical organism itself gave wisdom to
from his physical organism in an elemental way, and thus attain a certain
have lived longer, in a physical body than up to the age of thirty-three
have lived on in a physical body into the years when according to our
in a physical body has remembrance of something experienced in the spiritual
world before this physical life. But present-day philosophers can make
death perceives only by means of his physical body and who works over
meaning to observations that have not even been made in a physical body
in a physical body. The Gnosis contained what was brought into this
physical world at birth; and it was possible to a certain extent up

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descended to his birth in a physical body. Such insight could not be
as a physical human being between birth and death, I receive my self
themselves within the external physical forms but extending out beyond
physical scientists; but nevertheless Schiller felt that it was very
except only the former head. Of course the physical matter passes over
by the physical organism, whether it is buried in the earth or burnt.

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It is true that we can find no reality, either spiritual or physical,
the antiquated views. With his physics too Goethe created a beginning,

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entity separated from his physical body: he went out of his physical
physical body. Then Brunetto Latini describes how the created universe
not what the eye sees outwardly, nor the physical part of the eye, but
than in that of the physical sense organs. Of the latter he knows that
they exist in man only in the physical world, not also outside it.
the human being was led by a spiritual being out of the physical world
him so greatly that his soul-and-spirit being left his physical body.

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rest in the landscape and what is moving. We sit within our physical
when we left the spiritual realms to come into physical existence between
this world. We observe the world by means of this physical vehicle in
the development of the physical body. Then we need another seven years
as hypotheses are quite impossible. Think how the physicist tells you

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that behind the scenes of physical existence there is a place where
behind the scenes of physical existence we could not possibly entertain
in external life on the physical plane we have no alternative but to
It is true that in physical life we have to restrict our dealings to
who confronts us in his physical body. However, what is so necessary
In other words, a person gets nowhere today if behind what goes on physically
want to organize what is here in the physical world, merely want to
reflect upon what surrounds them in the physical world, and have no
fight out in the spiritual world is carried into physical life. For
all against all. What happens here in the physical world can only be
and sees its relation to the physical world knows that certain laws

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
to confront you with the fact that a person on the physical plane and
using physical means has been able to point out to you the evil in your

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
who is a physician.
years ago, like a sick person seeking out a physician, I asked Dr. Steiner

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
that you're talking about the ether body as if it were a physical body;
nothing to do with the outer physical world, and in order to develop
The only suitable counterbalance is to approach things on the physical
that the forces at work in evil on the physical plane are in a sense
of existence to the physical plane. Certain forces that can lead us
world can turn to evil down here in the physical world.
transferred to the physical plane. For what is the nature of this force?
It consists in making one's thinking independent of the physical plane.
When this capacity is applied to the physical plane itself, it turns
when applied directly to the physical world.
and exactitude in the physical world as thoroughly as possible. If we
do not count on exactitude on the physical plane, then in a so-called
of the physical plane.
subjective matters that take place as a matter of course on the physical
physical plane.
abstaining from food are physical matters. If this were not the case,

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
only to the outer limits of the physical plane, where a living being
it begins to obey the physical laws of the earthly elements. The same
to being absolutely exact with regard to phenomena on the physical plane
nature, our own physical body, we know that we have to be physically
and that our physical organism is in constant interaction with the outside

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
to the physical world. I told you that we perceive external beings and
objects out there on the physical plane as existing outside us. We face
on the physical plane—we make mental images of the objects on
the physical plane and recognize them.
beings is a total reversal of our former relationship to the physical
physical plane.
as our whole relationship to the physical world would be wrong if we
“I am observing” is true of the physical world; ultimately,
to the physical world. There, we have not yet rid ourselves of the attitude
spiritual world to be essentially a copy of the physical world —
spirits would be just like standing here in this room among physical
on the physical plane, but they would be a bit less dense, so you could
from the physical plane into the spiritual world and retain our underlying
were nothing more than a misty emanation of the physical world—figures
in the physical world.
derived from the physical world. That is why all the beings of the spiritual
the form of Imaginations derived from the physical world. In other words,
the physical plane. He sees mighty and important spiritual beings, no
higher worlds in the same way that objects on the physical plane are
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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
before, the concept of physical contact plays an important part. I am
discussion of the role fear of physical contact plays in cases of neurosis:
involved in fear of physical contact, you can well imagine how it would
physicians of thirty years ago knew less about certain sexual abnormalities

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
that sphere with the same kind of consciousness he used on the physical
the right way to ascend from the physical plane to a higher plane of
existence. We must be very clear that on the physical plane, we perceive
various objects which are mirrored by means of our physical body and
on the physical plane is perceived by him exactly as he perceived objects
on the physical plane, although in a more refined state. Thus Swedenborg
of the physical world. He looks at the spiritual world in the same way
we look at the physical world in everyday life. What is the cause of
afraid most people here on the physical plane are of the cold and abstract
with and hostile to real life. That's how people on the physical plane
the physical plane are of so-called abstraction.
in their souls. Transferred to the physical plane, this is the same
by impulses provided for us on the physical plane through our karma
the physical plane up into the spiritual world, to which he really did
from his physical person, for if he had been able to do so, he would
on the physical plane are inadequate to explain what he was seeing.
physical plane have this energy, which is somewhat similar to clairvoyant
ability. On the physical plane, however, it is used for a different
is that? On earth, on the physical plane, it is the force that comes
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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
sensory-physical reality is all we can reasonably talk about. I have
in the outer physical world and be done with peddling empty words.”
strictly physical and confined to sexuality, and real love on a soul
but also in Schopenhauer's metaphysical cynicism. It is also what
of natural human activity on the physical plane. Thinking about spiritual
this aspect belongs to the physical plane and must remain there.
replaced by unhealthy ones in the name of mysticism. Here on the physical

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as a whole. As Steiner shows, our physical life, including human
We know that our physical
what does our physical development on ancient Saturn mean in relation
to take our physical nature as it is now and assume that if we imagine
it in a much more primitive and simplified form, that's what the physical
physical world, nothing on the physical plane as it exists now, that
bears the slightest resemblance to human physical existence during the
Saturn stage of evolution. In none of the forms and facts of the physical
world as we know it now is there any trace of what human physical development
this ancient form of our physical existence, we must make the effort
to do so with a soul and spirit freed from the physical and etheric
which we understand the makeup of our earliest potential for physical
the world of the perception of physical human nature on Saturn. For
the time being, let me just say that we must leave the physical body
of structures corresponding to physical human nature during the Saturn
physical existence during the Sun period, which represents a progression
of physical evolution from the Saturn stage. It is impossible to understand
our physical Sun nature with our present-day physical organs of perception.
as the level required for comprehending human physical nature during
the Saturn period. In other words, we are able to investigate our physical
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external physical events — for instance, to the events in social
takes in nourishment, and the physical world penetrates into
It is just the same as if a physician were to induce a boy to learn
for souls who are thus forced to incarnate in a physical body under

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economic order is to justify its existence in the physical world, it
in external physical life, with the impulses contained in the external

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in its ranks should concentrate their attention exclusively upon physical
vegetable and animal kingdoms of the physical world. In the course of
conception which turns its attention merely towards physical things,
within reality, and it considers the external physical things as semblance.
by the upholders of a physical-sensory conception. This materialistic
one might say, beneath the human being in the physical world outside.
of the physical kingdoms of the earth: Below him is the anjmal kingdom,

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law of Physics. It is a primary fact, something fundamental, that in
through birth into physical existence. In that life the human being
by man when, before he entered physical existence through birth, he
being the development of its physical body. In its aura there is much

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say, of chemistry, physics, mathematics, is of course true and these

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external physical reality. This belief in external physical reality
life of rights, than it bring to expression what here in the physical

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on the physical plane? As soon as this question is put intelligibly,
physical plane the forces of antipathy between soul and soul are concealed
by the physical body, and because this is so its place in the State
the physical workers to those organising with the help of capital, must
those who work physically and spiritually, capitalism will be out on
understanding of those who do the physical work. Understanding will then

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with the physical organ. Formerly, in the time of atavistic clairvoyance,
this does not mean the physical substance but the formative forces of

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physical plane. Nothing living as ideas in souls, in the State, in world-history,
goes beyond the physical plane, nor does it make man aware of there
the creation of the world are represented in art in a physical image;
it shows itself to be fitted only to enter into what is physical. The
physical is spiritualised by the superphysical but only in a truly abstract
physical world. Thus, I might say, the supersensible character of Hegel's
ideas does not become very apparent, for this superphysical is not related
to what is superphysical but only to what is physical.
Not physically, but where

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the etheric body and the physical body which he had before. Now
bound up with the physical body very closely, as it were
to carry our will into the physical world. Notably we have this
physical, but they also have a strongly-developed astral body
places these human individualities strongly into the physical
physical body, it no longer thrusts its forces into the
physical, but preserves them within itself. Hence the change
body that it not merely manifested in the physical, but
— between his etheric and his physical body.
merely physical events, has not yet reached in spiritual
physical body and his etheric body, which only reached its
connection between the physical body and the etheric, the
impressions made upon the physical body pass on at once into
simultaneously with the physical. In a nature such as
Goethe's, impressions are of course made on the physical body,
takes place when ail impression is made on his physical body.
physical body.
body: — he does not bring them through the physical body
physical significance but also a spiritual one.

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the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the
body are inside the physical body and the etheric, in sleep
man are outside the physical and etheric body during sleep. In
actual fact, precisely because they are outside the physical
the connection of the soul and the physical being of man
nervous system of the physical body is a single organisation.
mere appendage of the latter. We say that in his physical body
physical-organic nature of man. He is placed, as I showed in
the higher animal—the physical body is harnessed in the

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Saturn evolution (when the first plan of the physical human
and beginning of our physical body, which is still working in
the Saturn activity was a first beginning for the physical
antiquated nonsense! We will develop the purely physical
right kind of evolution on the physical plane.’ She

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the union of his physical organism with the whole earth. This
However, man is not just a man in connection with physical,
so-called physical, body is mainly active, he is also a fluidic
influence of the physical body, water is influenced by the
carried out made them feel that their physical body was
physical body by means of these streams. He had become united
transformed him into a divine human being in his physical body,
not the one who walks around in the physical world; I am he in
ancient times priests felt that their physical body was
times fathers experienced things in their physical body. This
with experiences with the physical body, in the second epoch

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leaves the physical body as far as ordinary consciousness is
leaves the physical and etheric bodies.
obliterated when the ego-organization leaves the physical and
that we can say: here are the physical and etheric bodies of
not in the physical and etheric bodies and because the ego is
the physical and etheric bodies, but when it is outside it is
physical body which is differentiated into warmth ether and
physical body already. So that when an initiate looks around
itself, and that man's physical body is a marvelous interaction

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physical presence of a god into people's souls.

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shouldn't think of it in such a physical way. Rather he will
one's physical body were protected against this, for one feels

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physical stream of heredity, approximately in the way that
originate from the physical forces of your parents, and the
spiritual impulses of your physical parents are also at work in
can also take in another impulse during his physical existence
the Father force when he stands in the outer physical world
brings up the spirit into the physical corporeality which he
in a way which is also not outwardly visible in the physical
acquires freedom in physical life, which entered in 333 which

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physical existence, as I said in a previous lecture. And in
go parallel with physical events, we find a supersensible

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he wears his three garments, physical body, etheric body and
outside the physical and etheric body and are in the earthly
environment, which is behind sensory, physical phenomena. They
would come back again to this earthly, physical garment, and
dwells in the physical and etheric bodies which lie there
the physical and etheric body, except that the average person
contained in the etheric body when he returns to the physical
physical activities. So that the initiates in the ancient
physical, sensory world. One felt this connection with the
physical sense world ' very strongly and one was of the opinion
the physical earth world.
physical, one will always admit: The earth is arranged in such
the earth in a physical, geographic way, and one will consider
not true that it gets its substances from physical foods.
and physical was for thousands of years.

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the physical world one can alternately speak of the one or the
course, when they're put into the physical World one gets a
Godhead appear here upon the physical plane.
the physical plane we see the triune Godhead approaching us
would do this in the physical world.
physical world. Now if we place this before our soul correctly,
must deal with men insofar as they are bearers of a physical
beings to go down from the spiritual to the physical, which the
the beast is overcome with respect to the outer physical world,

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physical and etheric bodies by an external force, and this was
as they have been pulled out of the medium's physical and
to his physical body. You see, one cannot get by in the
and truth which one has in the physical world. It is a complete
which one rightly uses in the physical world, in the spiritual
here in the physical world we say that a straight line is the
have to use in the physical world to the spiritual world.
for the fact that the moment he returns to the physical world
he has to work with physical concepts. A medium cannot do this
back again his ego and astral body fill the physical and
feelings in the physical world. Hence mediums become corrupted,
hypnosis would then go into his physical and etheric body and
make use of the physical body in order to wreak havoc on earth
the Christ with their etheric and physical bodies, and
aberration into themselves through their physical constitution,

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physical conditions on earth have changed since that time and
the physical plane in the middle of the Atlantean epoch no
the materials in their physical bodies were soft; so that
became imprinted in the physical body. In the middle of the
and longer range physical events and processes occurred was
spiritual events in all physical processes, transformations and
ground. So the physical conditions were quite different.
spiritual and psychical everywhere, even in a physical way. One
saw psychical and spiritual things in the physical world.
physical part of cloud formation, but they felt that something
that we can say that people saw the spirit in a physical way in
with its seven ages. A repetition of the physical happenings in
correspond to physical upheavals in the Atlantean epoch. And
physical world. Only a dim awareness of this was present, for
repetition of more condensed physical experiences and events in
entirely spiritual way — no longer in a physical way as
physical matter), that in the fourth post Atlantean or
physical way.
look back even further to what lived in physical, Atlantean
something physical lying far back in the past which occurred
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physical line of heredity and receive an etheric body and an
a physical body is only one segment of human life. As soon as
this in outer life on the physical plane. No real objections to

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makes the transition from the physical, sensory world to a
the form of a physical being. This union is really quite
only active in the physical, terrestrial world in it. Thus the
land, the soul from the soul world and the physical body from
the physical world. These members of the human being come from
man leaves the physical world with his consciousness, his inner
threshold. Whereas the physical body still gave something to
physical world is in the fiery feet that get their strength
what one calls a system of forces in physics. If one was a

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three-year-old child; all of the physical matter has been
what existed previously, and it's not just a matter of physical

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is experienced on the physical plane today in a superficial and
physical reality do these beasts correspond to?
physical bodies by their astral bodies, if these astral bodies
latter were much more closely connected with physical

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nature disappears. In other words, the physical sense world
physical sense world and to become familiar with all its
physical world. The moment he goes over to the seals and treats
physical world = the content of the letters.
let's take a look at the way the physical world appears to us.
This physical world is more than it seems to be. This physical
realize that what we think of as a physical content in our
physical veil that is spread out before us as our world of
sees nature around one in the physical world it is really all
about the Maya character of the sensory, physical world, but
things and processes of the physical world, but they have
you look at a human being on earth in his physical body, one
show that the physical body is in a continual process of
things, since it is degradation at the physical level; so that
the spirit can then live in the physical, degradative
and not promoted when man grows and when physical processes are
is continuously punctured by physical processes, as it were, so
in physical things in a creative way via degradation. The
physical body absorbs degradative processes. We see that an
Fichte's individuality descends into its physical body in that
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so when a man looks at what appears everywhere in the physical
Thrones in the physical things. Their concealed activity
becomes manifest as physical substances. If one wants to have
physical.

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spiritual world, see it in a physical-spacious way. Such souls you will
in the Est what is the physical is strictly connected upward, toward
on the physical plane, the realm of Christ. One might say: By Rome,
on the physical plane.
dead see, just like the souls on the physical plane see the objects
do with the physical surroundings and its objects.
was really in the South to create, on the physical plane, the realm
they are tied to the physical body, you will receive only an external
living part of the whole physical plane. The moods of the 9th century

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is not possible, if one visualized in a living way, to visualize a physical

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impulses which exist totally on the physical plane as did the fourth
form to that which the physical world brings forth, the beautiful human,
first of all the stone — physical; then the plant-motives left
into the physical human being: — “And the Word has become
that the soul and the external physical were thought of as belonging

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certainly never expressed in this way on the physical plane. But it

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physical-mineral sphere. It must be quite clear to you that
mineral-physical. Just consider how uncomfortable a modern
anything but what is mineral or physical. As soon as the
Jehovah, — that of the mineral — physical life.
the Christ-element, it developed into that physical mineral
Spiritual; it only gives descriptions of the physical-sensible,
when man is born into physical existence, or is conceived, he
surrounds himself with physical matter. But in the
is wished to limit man to starting with physical birth or
existed before he was born or conceived into physical life. In
(Deathlessness) when we think of the end of our physical

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direct our attention to his physical organisation and then to
forming thoughts work against this. For this we need a physical
if we put this diagrammatically, we can say: Physical body and
ego organisation are outside the physical and etheric bodies.
body are in such a union with the physical and etheric bodies,
to a certain degree and independent of the physical and etheric
perceptive organ. Of course it is not the physical organ which
physical and etheric bodies and the astral body and the ego
vibration of the physical and etheric bodies, together with the
and ego on the one side, and the physical and etheric bodies on
beside him, but excludes his physical body, making it a sense
physical substance, as such; of the life basis or the psychic;
we must seek for the physical corporeal part, for the psychic
deeper than any which have arisen as physical truth in Natural
careful. One has on the one side modern Chemistry, Physics,
chemists, physicists, physiologists, doctors, are beginning to
chemically, physically, or physiologically. Thereby
Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, but when Anthroposophy shows
chemist, physicist or doctor in the right way.

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into contact with beings who do not live on the physical plane.
physical animals — then they would feel as though they were
followed him as he descended into the physical, sensible world.
people walking in the physical world; they sought Christ there
undertaken on the physical plane; they let it continue working in
between this physical world and the spiritual world is such that an
In a certain sense, physical human beings
enter into a physically incarnated human being and do it
them here in the physical world. A human being through whom a
knight of the Grail was working here in the physical world was
the physical world and sees how the spiritual man arises out of the
physical man and afterward belongs to the living dead, this
followed it in the physical world, and it has then lifted itself
out of the physical world as something spiritual. This was the
physical, which had to be illumined by the spiritual. Now, however,
view of knowing the physical, it came to this, even in theology.
illuminate the physical world. But now they extracted their
concepts out of the physical world itself, and they did not get far
— they only arrived at an interpretation of the physical
— our conceptual life must be obtained here in the physical

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physical world. But this physical world actually
the forces and the essential being of the physical world. This
physical world manifests its workings, for instance, in gravity and
physical world within the mineral kingdom. As soon as we come to the
plant kingdom, the ideas and concepts we have formed for the physical
observation than is applicable to the physical world. He encountered
knowing, although very useful when applied to the physical world of
I look at a plant it is not the physical that I see or, at any rate,
that I should see; in a manner of speaking, the physical has become
visible all around us, while in the plant kingdom physical nature has
physical nature are still at work in the plant kingdom; but they have
nature. And we are wrong if we say that the physical body of the
plant is visible. The physical body of the plant has actually become
really come into being? If you have a physical body, for instance, a
quartz crystal, you can see the physical in an unmediated way. But
with a plant you do not really see the physical, you see the etheric
form. This etheric form is filled out with physical matter; physical
becomes carbon in the earth you see how the substance of physical
the plant is filled out with the physical but dissolves the physical
plant form. The physical is invisible.
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In the same way, a person would have said: In the physical world of
complete a human being to regard the sensuality of physical

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in the times preceding the mystery of Golgotha, consisted of physical
the physical body is no longer developing in its full, original
developed their physical bodies in greater freshness than those who
freshness in the human physical, etheric, and astral bodies —
these lectures. Just as a corpse is left over from our physical
world before coming down into the physical world. However, this has
must enter our physical body.
freshness of primal being was manifested in his physical, etheric,
appear: The human physical body began to be inwardly brittle, to
danger that the physical body could increasingly decay and fall
this way the I was enkindled in, and added to, the physical body,
physical body, etheric body, and astral body, now the Christ
within itself physical nature. One might also say that the
plant corrupts physical nature. The animal then corrupts the physical
and the etheric. And the human being corrupts the physical, the
mysteries freed himself entirely from physical body, etheric
not only the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body, but
the human physical body the mineral kingdom, in the human etheric
the human being something that lives in the external physical body as
had physical body, etheric body, and astral body been nullified in
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such a way as to physically link it to the nervous system
as also in the physical world, if it has to be touched with awe
‘I’ and the astral body, are separated from the physical
and etheric part. Between falling asleep and waking up the physical
his sleep, thus the human being descends as a physical being
consciousness doesn't enable us to have a human physical head
expression of a purely physical organ — the larynx and

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thoughts regarding the world, as it is carried out in physics
physics spirituality is alive. This need really be striven for
comes down from the spiritual into the physical world in order

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as a physical body it expires into a cosmic sleep — then
Depths of earth in your Physical
what happens at every instant, when we in our physicality,
ritual, just like the physical body experiences something new
plants would grow. Plants grow in the physical world; the Act
as if on the lower level of the physical earth no plants would

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human physical bodies so that he can give everlasting life

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of this moral-physical, which is there at the firmament, to the
spoke as we speak about plants, minerals, animals and physical

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in more physical concepts with Aristotle. However, Aristotle

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equipped indeed, if he enters into the physical-sensory
existence, by the physical-bodily heredity with the vegetative
able to do it, while we live here in the physical body. We
systems; how one system of the human physical body is
creating in the physical. That is, I took the volte-face to
veil of physical existence. One penetrates beyond the limits of
while something that is bound, otherwise, to the human physical
get a relationship to the contents of physical manifestation.

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physical body, ether body, astral body, kama-manas, manas,
of the spiritual world. For the physical, sensible world, with
testified to it, the physical test-room, the medical clinics,
there plays into the physical one through the soul of a dying
physical body, ether body, astral body, and so on. I

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talked about in abstract forms of speech. Physical body,
indeed, was still called ‘physical body’. ‘etheric body’ was
which wore quite a natural appearance in the physical world,
in such a way, that the physical presents an accompanying
parallelism of the physical and the spiritual. — With

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through the transmission of physical letters, physical
paper, — from a quarter not situated within the physical
doors, in the ordinary physical way, but fraudulently, into the
application. Modern physics, however, does not contest it; it
physical world; that one can bring up out of him what he went
you get to a certain depth, physical and spiritual life are
study the physical life in a dilettante way, inasmuch as they

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accustomed to move amongst physical, sensible effects;
feelings of reality, with which the things of the physical
painted before my eyes in the outer, physical world, — it
friends, that in a large measure even one's physical body does
likeness to the things which are in our physical surroundings.

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molecular structure of physical bodies to the molecular
applies to the pro-cesses of the physical world. And nothing
theoretic physicists of that period; only that with them the
in text-books of physics or other sciences. Then he brought his
his physical body certainly falls to pieces; one single atom
the atom of some physical substance: Hydrogen or Oxygen; and

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from physics and astronomics for the ether and the astral
from physics and astronomics for the ether and the astral

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sinks less deep into the physical body than it does with Man in

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the human being lives on the physical earth animated by his
soul within and he goes around in this physical body until his

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their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
been implanted in him as a physical being on earth between
in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
what is experienced in the physical world. One must acquire
physical eyes; in our times, when people are completely attuned
world as a physical person, you think about this outer world.
And at the same time you have impressions from the physical
live in reality. Reality accepts you as a physical reality.
that in the physical world the chair is a real chair and not
in the physical world? Because in the physical world your
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
within each other by the physical body.
are justifiably satisfied, as far as the physical world is
memory of physical earthly life can reach. He goes back beyond
the threshold of the spiritual world. The physical body ceases
the physical world. And for that it is really necessary that we
physical body. He knows that his legs carry him through the
that carry him through the world. In doing so, he is a physical
physically, he must also commit with his soul to the leading
Just as I must say that for physical health your blood must
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more to my physicality than the tree? Little by little I am
physicality in this incarnation. To feel this deeply and
physically, which to a certain extent lifts us above the

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only human physicality is taken into consideration.
physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
this relationship of the human physical body with the earthly,
the physically sighted and for the physically unsighted. Light
is objective. Not only the physically sighted receive it, the
physically unsighted also receive it ... when they think. Because
forget this. If we do, although we continue to live physically
also physical pain. The physical and the mental, matter and
tempt you. This is not the death which we see in the physical

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animals, plants and minerals and also in our physical human
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
physical body. Here is where the Luciferic temptation appears,

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what it means to be outside the physical body with the human I
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
through the attainment of higher knowledge leaving the physical
when outside the physical body the person perceives his
surroundings exactly as he perceives the physical world with
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
behold his own sensory physical being.
in the physical world; here with me you are as your inner being
the other, physical side. He sees himself differently. He sees
person and are only held together in one by the physical body
in the physical world. And what the person sees there resounds
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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newsletter that Dr Wegman sent to the physicians who were thus
earth-life are held together by our physical bodies. Thinking,
feeling and willing are conjoined in physical existence.
physical body.
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
physical body is not present.
stomach. What we call our organs, what we call the physical
in our physical bodies we look out from here to the sun and
soon as we leave our physical bodies with our thinking, we
experienced: leaving the physical body, expanding throughout
by the physical body, now becomes threefold. And we learn to
physical world, but still lived above in the soul-spiritual
have on earth were alive, but our physical body is the grave in
before we descended to this physical world a living thinking
the physical world. When one looks at man, one sees at first
from the spiritual to the physical world. It is, however, like
at the human heart as the physical imaginative representative

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physician comes with a thermometer; he measures warmth from
measuring of the mere physical extends to the moral:
Here we have the support of man, the physical support. [In the
physical, but permeated with the etheric.
it. We feel our physicality in our spirituality when we measure
gradually extract our souls from our physical bodies and pass
through such an exercise, then the world ceases to be physical
physical in the world is only semblance, maya; the world is
are freed from physical existence, it is as though our thinking
because they already are so due to the physical body being a
falling apart if they were not held together by the physical

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beyond the merely physical into the super-physical. And so,

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her spiritual and physical life. So much with regard to the
what he says: That the labour-power, the physical labour-power
takes up a work on Physics; it contains a certain limited

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pictured himself as a centaur. His physical body he looked upon
on his physical body, but that it had a spiritual origin.
belief in its transmission along physical paths, — it was
it was the physical man which is the actual vehicle, the organ
only a physical being. And it was only under the sort of
physical being that it was possible for the economic type of
physical human beings in the body was designated by the Jews,
the physical understanding that one arrives at what is there
by purely external physical science, and according to the most
downhill. Our physical organisation is not now what it was, for
decadence. V/hat Is physical about the earth is in its
that we should not rely upon the physical. It is, on the
physical is breaking up; everything physical on earth has begun
to go to ruin, and one dare not rely any longer on the physical
soul-element, — spurting out because the physical element
are connected through our bodies with the physical conditions
everything physical is of itself going to ruin.
perceive that the earth's physical life is already sinking to
that which is spurting forth from the crumbling physical world,
physical earth, — if we could say: We put up the Building

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intellect in so far as that is bound to the physical plane. We
the brain or, in general, through the physical organism. This
science of chemistry and physics, the seeking of the
the West to investigate the natural connections of physical man
physical, intellectual performance. In the course of the 19th

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into the service of purely external physical existence, of

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that man, while he attains his consciousness in a physical
body, is all the time preserving something in this physical
also needs actions performed in a physical body. This conscious
physical world.
have told you. It is true that man lays aside his physical body
worlds; but I also told you that the physical body, which is
the food-substances in a physical respect. That knowledge is
from out of the Cosmos that which he is in his own physical

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exist already, and turn to the physical flames, then, my dear

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Spiritual beings. Although to physical vision the Earth appears
external physical Earth we develop especially our life between
man descends out of the starry worlds to physical birth in
threatens us of hardening in Physical existence, when we are
belonging to the time we pass before our physical birth or
grasped by physical conceptions; our physical conceptions have
the physical body, and if that intelligence hypertrophies and
becomes too strong, we become too closely related to physical
harden in the physical body and then one also gets a deep
wanting to appear within a physical body. That can be put
that time no longer have to appear again in physical
man himself makes of it, not that which the physical forces are
making of it. Those physical forces will fall away and be of no
ensnared by physical existence in a brooding inner life, (and
to the illusion of what appears to me physically on the Earth.

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relationships between Spiritual beings. Although to physical
external physical Earth, we develop especially our life
says: that man descends out of the starry worlds to physical
Physical existence, when we are living between death and
instinct along into the time we pass before our physical
to be grasped by physical conceptions, our physical
the physical body, and if that intelligence hypertrophies and
becomes too strong, we become too closely related to physical
then harden in the physical body and when one also gets a
nation, no longer wanting to appear within a physical body.
physical existence.
himself makes of it, not that which the physical forces are
making of it. Those physical forces will fall away and be of
physical existence in a brooding inner life, (and what is the
yield to the illusion of what appears to me physically on the

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
physical organism — must exert itself to mould and harden

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
mental illnesses are always based on physical ailments;
always rooted in physical problems, people wonder how they can
truth, man not only inherits a physical existence from his
physical body! One would have to investigate far
investigated just as other, physical matters can be

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
man's physical life.
as a physician, as a man whose main goal is therapeutic, and

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
and Physical Rejuvenation Treatments
removed exhibited both physical and mental changes. Growth
known, a physician-scientist in Paris named Metschnikoff
the universe, yet a difference does exist between the physical

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
physical apparatus. What is it for? Well, imagine that a man is
say that fair people were actually always weaker physically and

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
man is not just a physical apparatus, he does not
its physical expression.
this you gradually work yourself up from the physical level to

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
water in turn is held by our physical body. It is the most
the physical, material part; the fluid man, which carries the
constantly dies and is renewed in the physical realm but
observation of the physical to the observation of the
nonphysical, the non-material. Only in this way can we

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
led to the realization that the sun, too, is not the physical

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ear, the thyroid and hormones, treatments for mental and physical
person needs more physical activity, another less.
how some remedy reacts in the general physical organism that
be said that internal physical illnesses are based on something
physical illness, and in thirst there is the

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in this spiritual-physical world, thus did he feel himself related
to his spiritual-physical world. On the one hand, the invocation to

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dissecting room to acquire physical, anatomical knowledge, we are

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through the outer physical sense-impressions. He combines what
exercises quite a particular action on the physical body. A
physical body takes place in the physical body. Matter nowhere
thought, has such an action on the physical body that matter is
physical body. This centre of destruction exists in the modern

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through birth into a physical body. He learns it according to
condition into his physical body. That is a factor with
taught, he has only laid a physical body around his
physical existence uninstructed by the Gods, and he had to be
before his birth. It was not only the principle of physical
them. The last relic of this still lingers in physical

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physical change occurs in the child but only that the mother
significance. When one sees the physical origin of the human

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inherent in their physical nature, and there is no need to
physical. If the facts are not suppressed, if one sees that
indicated. Our task here was simply to show correct physical
discovered by physical means, though the descriptions of the

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capacity can be influenced physically. Indeed, the human
reproductive capacity can be physically affected precisely

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physical instrument; it uses its front paws and teeth as
physical instruments. The tail, however, is something that has

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Russians are unselfish and physically not as vigorous. This is
difference is that while wine directly ruins the physical
stimulate the growth forces in the physical body. Absinthe,

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his physical body because of outside influences. You can

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solid body of man is really physical and material. Only that
living as a physical, earthly being.

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lifeless-physical principles of the human form for the causes of the
lifting of the arm. Moreover, in the physical-chemical laws which are
corpse itself — in the chemical and physical, lifeless laws of
last obliged to say: “We can investigate the physical and also
left over is a mere synthesis — a kind of form. The physical
“one world” into another; from the everyday physical into
it already becomes clearer. When we observe only the physical corpse,
Kingdom; Simultaneity of causes and effects within the physical.
the physical are antecedent in time. No, it is not so in reality. For
any effects to arise in the physical, the causes must continue
Kingdom; Simultaneity of causes, within the physical.
simultaneity in the physical and in the superphysical, so we may
Kingdom; Simultaneity of causes in the physical and
superphysical.
search of food — in the physical and chemical processes to be
earthly-physical, nor of the superphysical and etheric. We shall not
the physical and chemical forces within the animal, we cannot find
friends, does not even accord with physical observation.
causes in the physical and super-physical; we must refer the present
effects of the physical to past superphysical causes. Thus,
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it is no longer a finger. Outwardly, physically, it is still the
lifeless kingdom — the physical corpse. And on the other hand,
that man, as he lives in the physical world, can receive practically
We carry the ether-body within us. The physical body contains our
eyes and our ears ... As I explained just now, this physical body has
nothing in common with the remainder of the physical world. This is
the physical world. But it is quite different with our ether-body. By
world into our physical body — that which determines the finer
before we descend from super-physical into physical existence.
bring with us from the spiritual world into the physical.
we here see established within the physical, another kingdom; and in

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earthly era, man between birth and death lives in his physical body,
into this physical and earthly life. Then, between death and a new
by contrast with this physical. There he has not a physical body,
dead look down on to the physical world just as the living (that is,
the physically living) look upward into the spiritual world. But
their feelings are reversed, so to speak. In the physical world
physical life on earth.
of physical strength; they will begin to carry objects which they
physical strength of the men of that time was correspondingly
follow that a fat man is strong and a thin man physically weak. But
their physical actions; their physical deeds went parallel with

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descends out of the spiritual world into the physical. You will
inexact. When we descend out of the spiritual into the physical
world, for a new life on earth, we have our physical body prepared
for us, to begin with, by the stream of inheritance. This physical
however, it will suffice us to bear in mind that the physical body is
ether, before he unites himself with the physical body which is given
astral body, and ether-body, with the physical human embryo, can only
gradually withdraws itself from the physical embryo.
therefore unites himself with the physical germ after having drawn
birth and death? The physical organism comes, as we have seen, from
into the physical, we carry in our astral body what we have
from the human souls with whom we are born again in the physical
generally ascribe it to his physical nature. Not so the men who
does not affect the physical. The experience of the soul which
affects the physical body must also become conscious.
different from the physical. Of course, it is easy enough for anyone
the earth. In this epoch we can live. It is just as in our physical

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his physical and etheric constitution. Then it depends on the
basis, all that comes to expression in his life, in the physical
his deeper being, descends from spiritual worlds into this physical
so; they see his whole physical organism as a product of what is
given to him by his forefathers. He carries this physical organism
he is born, to begin with undoubtedly man has his physical organism
from his parents. But what is the physical organism which he receives
ourselves the physical materials and form our own physical body
without the help of physical inheritance?
come to the earth in such a way that he could form his own physical
faculty, out of his own nature to build his physical body. Therefore
he must take it from heredity. This way of obtaining the physical
Therefore he cannot form his physical body of his own accord when he
from spiritual worlds into this physical life on earth.
of the way man descends into the physical world.
judgments man has in physical life on earth are, in fact, different
all-round way out of both spiritual and physical science. If you do
is it a physical, hereditary relationship.
so to speak, with their soul, in the entire physical cosmos. The
degree of interest in the physical world around them.
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the free deeds of man, is really shaped and moulded in its physical
We have distinguished in him the physical body, the etheric body, the
upon him, simply as he stands before us in the physical world.
according to his physical form — we can recognise in this
physical form and configuration three clearly distinct members. If
physical form, man to begin with is head, and head alone. The other
human being. For in reality, even as physical form, he is a threefold
Feeling and Willing. Thinking finds its corresponding physical
physical organisation, it is true, throughout the human being; but
not speaking from the physical standpoint; from a physical standpoint
is just as it is in the physical life — you breathe in; the air
surrounding atmosphere. And as you are thus connected on the physical
connected with this combustion process. As physical human beings with
concern themselves with that which has its physical organisation in
are standing somewhere or other in the physical world. The sky is

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economy, philosophy, mechanics, physics and so on.

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physical stature of the Swabian Vischer as he went about Stuttgart,
his physical stature.
physics and mathematics, especially by the treatise Neue
of pictures and images. Here, manifesting in purely physical

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Greece and Rome. You have only to picture these physical forefathers
speech. For them the surging roar of the wind was as much a physical
now, what is the connection? Man as he stands before us as a physical
death. The head that in the physical world is the most essentially
human part of man, really expends itself in physical existence;
whereas the rest of the organism — which, physically speaking,
world. In his head, man is most of all physical and least of all
purely physical matter, but when it is a question of destiny we are
seen, there were present only a physical body and an etheric body,
physical organisation was so healthy. The astral body and the ego
very strongly with his physical body. Pain makes one intensely aware
of the physical body because the astral body yearns after the body

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poets, scientists and physicians living at this Court in Baghdad.

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seemingly insignificant physical detail. This detail it was that

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time and place, embracing as it did the physical world and the
things that a man brings to manifestation on the physical plane, with
important for the physical world only; they are quite different from

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not a Pole at all by physical descent but only by civilisation and

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physical and the etheric bodies.
soul-and-spirit tends to go out — holds to the physical and
the soul-and-spirit holding to the physical and etheric by a very
soul-and-spirit with the physical and etheric. The soul-and-spirit is
deeply immersed in the physical and etheric — ‘sits
physical and etheric. To describe his psyche is really one of the
physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego. And in Conrad

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that had existed in the physical world between the overseer and the
breaking away from the physical body. Study the nobler poems, also
from connection with the physical body. As you know, in his
physical body to a high degree, so much so that insanity ensued, or
soul-and-spirit had loosened from the physical
tendency to a loosening of the soul-and-spirit from the physical
separates from the physical. Because he has this double nature, the

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descend to the earth and unite with a physical-etheric organisation,
into the physical world — this resolve is a stupendous matter.
approaches for the soul of some former Initiate to use a physical
that as well as the physical Sun there is also a Spiritual Sun, and

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out into nature. It is more or less the same as if a man in physical
food. Such a man deteriorates physically. But when he merely gazes at

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not as in the physical world. In the physical world you stand outside
physical world that A makes what you have put into him into his
being in a certain way. When no more than the ordinary physical human

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human environment, we really see in the physical world only what is
caused by physical force in a physical way. And if we do see in the
physical world something that is not caused by physical forces, we
still become aware of it through external physical substances,
through external physical objects of perception. Of course, when a
physical forces, by physical causes, for in many respects it comes
in the physical phenomena of the world we thus observe. In the entire
this is seen, as long as we merely direct our senses to the physical
perceive in the physical world is perceived through our senses. These
the physical body and the etheric body, occupies itself with this
shapes it there, outside the physical and etheric
body, when outside the physical and etheric bodies, shapes the
yourself the human being: his physical and etheric bodies lie in bed,
return into the physical and etheric bodies and bear into them what
physical and etheric bodies. The external ether then impregnates the
body into the physical body. The etheric body impresses this picture
into the physical body, into the nerve-processes, into the
physical body. So the third stage is: The picture is stamped into the
physical body by the etheric body.
physical body. All this goes on in the subconscious. When the
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manifestations of the human being in the physical world. For in
the head, contains a certain concatenation of forces. The physical
physical substance, of course, is not carried over from one earthly
and soul on the one side and the natural-physical on the other. Yes,
say: certain physical processes are to be understood only when we
to physical cures — if indeed they are of any help! But for the
a man lives during one earthly life, and his physical constitution in
spirit with the physical are correct). When you see people with some
of the spiritual in the physical. I have often emphasised that what
physical in the human being is through and through a copy of the
non-fostering of his physical existence, we can say that here is
speaking of the physical. To-morrow I shall speak more about the
moral sides, but the physical must certainly be kept in mind,
moral side. To-day I shall deal mainly with the physical side. This
appear before us. In the physical world, with the exception of the
marvellous structure of the brain, everything is really a physical
physical.
bowels is only the extreme instance. Whatever else is physically
remains longer. Any physical substance that can be found in the
purely super-sensible existence within the physical.
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that directly we look beyond the physical world — and this is
spiritual. Even when they take effect in the physical, for
— of which the physical part as ordinarily described is no more
external world only through physical means of transmission. If we
now there is no physical body, no etheric body, through which
had no physical body and no etheric body. You would flit over the
manipulated in the physical world by multifarious combinations and

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definite way to the facts and realities of his physical
moral and psychical on the one side and the natural and physical on
the sun still radiates, though not in the physical sense; and it
physical influences, in the life between death and a new birth the
physical effects of the sun. This proverb says that the sun shines
in his earthly life man is one whole. His physical existence and his
realisation, can be led over into the physical. Spiritually, our
spiritual aspects must be transformed into the physical. Here is the
spiritual into the physical.
comes also to physical realisation in karma. Such is the onward

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physical organism but he elaborates what is otherwise to be found in
what is present simultaneously in man, namely, physical body,
the period of physical decline when the mineralising process is
forces which co-operate in the creation of a new physical man. Before
being. A change takes place in the physical organism at puberty
physical body were still to hold together from sheer inertia. Death
physical side it is subject to influences coming from the animal,
concerned with the shaping of karma during physical life on
physical world, and it is they who mainly accompany us through the
spiritual radiations of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. When physical
being has identified itself with evil. It is as though the physical
physical existence’ — this consciousness grew fainter and

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Beings of the planetary spheres. As we look at the outer, physical
as human beings is such that within the physical body we have an
it as if presented to physical sight, not to the eye of soul) you
it in the domain of physical, psychical or spiritual qualities. Nay
without any kind of connection in physical space, the Initiates

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Knowledge, man is, to begin with, entirely within his physical and
transmitted to him from his physical body. In the activity of
his physical body. And in point of fact it would not be so difficult
physical body.
physical body through the attitude and tenor of soul he acquires in
upon the physical body, are essentially influenced by the physical
experiences in the physical body. If he is to acquire the faculty of
with the physical body and thus living within it, and the condition
of being independent of the physical body but for all that remaining
within the physical body, we do not leave it, but we are nevertheless
with your soul and spirit within the physical body, then you fill the
physical body, even if you are not bound up with it. I will
represent the physical body (inner curves), this the etheric body
is connected everywhere with the physical body through the muscles,
the etheric body to the physical body. Now picture to yourselves that
This condition can be indicated by (b) in the diagram. Physical body;
physical body but remains within it, as is the case in the activity
actual heaviness. He becomes intensely aware of his physical body
outside his physical body with the soul and spirit. Thus (c) in the
diagram represents the soul and spirit outside the physical and
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and his ego, outside his physical and etheric bodies. With his ego
indicates his physical body. In this physical body is the etheric
as he falls asleep. The physical and etheric bodies lie in the bed.
spiritual realm other laws prevail than in the physical world. In the
physical world a body is exactly where it is — nowhere else. In
in the bed and is not man in the full sense but only the physical and
of our physical and etheric bodies into the spiritual world. The
into his physical and etheric organisation.

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world and the other of the physical world.
the world of stars as well as in the physical world. Throughout our
physical existence to the spiritual world. For this physical
physical world of sense? The spiritual world behind the physical
sun throughout our physical sense-existence is the super-sensible
for a moment. When our physical and etheric bodies are there in the
that the physical and etheric bodies are left to themselves, working
traces in our physical and etheric bodies. We should not be able to
field. While thou hast left thy physical and etheric bodies, these
fruits of what we lay into our own physical and etheric bodies
in this world I gazed down at my physical body and my etheric body
picture of the physical world, but only when this physical world is
physical and etheric bodies, weaving in the streaming forces of
physical and etheric bodies was not yet complete. The spectacle thus
we celebrate the earthly rite before the physical body, and the
world and the physical unite.
there is accordance between the spiritual world and the physical
world. The spiritual and the physical world interplay in the very

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out of karma during physical life on earth. To-day I should like to
physical existence by a transition as abrupt as birth or conception,
nor led out of physical existence by a transition as abrupt as death.
the earth in physical bodies but in etheric bodies, and at a certain
physical organisation.
can happen to the physical body but not to the etheric body, the
physical world and its beings. We must ask the question: How do the
is carried from the physical into the spiritual world. But from
his path through the physical world of sense — this alone can

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has a physical body, an etheric body and an astral body,

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found here in the physical world of sense. Here we have
has a life-giving quality, not only for the physical
this physical world of sense, — as when in sacred
cult or ritual men consciously transform their physical

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gets a strange physical debility, — a disease

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physical body with great rapidity, though with the
said that this entry and expansion into the physical body
body and the becoming-aware of the physical. Man passes
down at once into the physical. This is a peculiarity of
the etheric body and the physical.” They knew that
body, and then only enters into the physical. Thus indeed,
remains lying on the couch, into the etheric and physical
body leave the physical and etheric, the Ego very quickly
into the etheric and physical body took place in distinct
the physical shape, but the physical was enveloped in an
leaving the physical body to a slight extent. He was

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even before they descended into the physical world in the
preparing to descend into the physical world of sense, who

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the events in the physical and super-physical worlds which
physical world of sense, so we are surrounded in the
forces of heredity. Never were the forces of physical
especially important which are connected with physical
realisation through physical inheritance.
not the physical earth. As we look down on to the earth,
into the Physical, and by their power implanting the
Spiritual into the Physical. But, ever and again after long
carry the Spiritual into the Physical, making it a creator
of the Physical, — all this their power the Seraphim,
who afterwards descended into the physical world, being

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physical inheritance — forces related to physical
enter strongly into the physical bodily nature of man.
forces will work right into the physical organisation. For
connect the physical phenomena of health and illness with
behind the scenes of this external, physical world which is
paths of Michael from the spiritual into the physical
physical world was taking place in the last third of the
Michael will appear as an immediate, physically creative,
physically formative power.
expression and take vengeance in physical illnesses,
physical accidents and the like.
enhanced. For Michael works right down into the physical
physical bodies on the earth. Nevertheless, they can

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he descends from the spiritual into the physical worlds,
enter into this physical body with a certain reservation,
and firmly established in the physical bodily nature. In
physical and etheric organisation.
of the outer physical body only. The others, who are
materialists, know the physical only, — or at least
truth, but it holds good in the physical alone. This
physical life, and they cannot approach Anthroposophy
implanted in his physical and etheric body. He felt his
physical body. But the Cosmic Intelligence, that Michael
follows. They too have the physical body; but the Cosmic
spirit — remains in the physical body. Thus there are
has dived deep down into their physical body.
down into the Physical. I described it yesterday as
basis of their nationality, out of the Physical. Today we
soul-and-spirit from the physical bodily nature as in times
and especially if his physical body is thoroughly taken

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trees and shrubs here in the physical world. What is
commonly referred to as a mere physical planet is in
a star, that which appears to us physically is but the
— now that that which appears in the physical Sun
environment no less than physical human beings. During this
kingdom adjoins the physical, so that we may say: ‘It
penetrate into the physical domain of earth.
spiritual and in the physical together, if one would
the earthly physical domain. It will only be so if there

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all the physical boundaries blurred.
sorts of colours — colours which modern physics interprets quite
man did not see symbols of physical things, but the physical things
just as here on earth he is among physical realities, where he is among
spiritual beings as on earth he is among physical beings. — This
way that the spiritual fact or spiritual being behind every physical
a physical reality, becomes a void, as it were leaving the space free
Just as the sun's light is reflected to our physical eyes from all
outer, physical objects, so will humanity come to perceive that the
a living reality in all physical beings. As the physical light is
reflected back to our physical eyes, so from every earthly being there
physical-etheric sun-nature ... he will then be able to say that the
when with the soul and spirit, which have left the physical and etheric,

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methods than any researches of physics or chemistry, and I should not

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which underlies the outer, physical happenings. Men do indeed describe
as history the events that take place in the physical world, and they
contributing to the spread of Arabism here in the physical world.
partakes in a sense in what is here below in the physical) — the
which may indeed be thus projected down on to the physical plane.
after Haroun al Raschid and his counsellor had left the physical plane
human, that is to say, what takes place on the physical plane alone.
outward configuration as it appears again in the physical world. It
in the physical world. Then only do we really begin to understand what

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upon the immediate perception of things with the physical senses.
movement and activity of physical sense Nature and who on the other hand
physical world in order to carry forward in the way that conditions
other: we must always perceive the physical, or that which takes place
in physical history upon earth, together with the spiritual that
descends into the physical earth-life earlier than another soul with
physical bodies that are possible in a given age. They must find their

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occurrence: we find in the physical expression of the countenance in a
the continuation, in the spiritual and in the physical, of the life of
understand what takes place outwardly on the physical plane if we see in
these events as they take place on the physical plane. We must regain
Mysteries. We must connect the physical events not merely abstractly
a merely physical sense as is customary to-day, for then we should not
learn to know the human being. By merely physical knowledge we can never
the starting-point of the physical we can trace the spiritual life of a
again and again, the external and physical — the physical
these researches especially, seeking the ways of entry from the physical
For the sum-total of the human organs — which even physically is
explaining what is physically there to-day. For in reality the whole
what was then sent forth, physically, in Parsifal. I shall begin next

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VI
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at length we come to speak of spiritual beings as we speak of physical
who are now on the physical plane and those who are discarnate, living
into the physical, worked in connection with the physical world. For
the spiritual and in the physical world together, were allotted to the
century there hovers in the immediate neighbourhood of the physical
of course, adjoining this physical world in a qualitative, not in
picture. — To begin with, down in the physical world, one
immediately adjoining our physical world of sense. I could only hint at
by a thin wall from the physical, and in it the most gigantic facts are
physical. Already as a young man I had no great difficulty in quickly
easily unite my soul with that which in the physical world is named by
physical means. And this had reached its highest point during my Weimar
Tycho Brahe. He has not appeared again himself on the physical plane,
Tycho Brahe who can help us. He is not on the physical plane to-day; but

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VII
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realm of the stars as it appears to physical sight, reveals only its
physicist would be in the highest degree astonished if he arrived at the
physicist, if he were to go to the places where the stars are, would be
the star really contains is of a spiritual nature, or, if physical it
Earth in the way our astronomers and astro-physicists observe other
after death, through the period that lasts about a third of the physical
the physical world. If we had not this sense of reality we could
have spoken of them here! As the Moon separated physically from the
physical bodies, but they founded the primeval wisdom of which the

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture VIII
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to what happens here in the physical life on earth it is of course
phenomena of the outer, physical life.
though not in a physical body, nor had they taught in the way we
Christianity be realised in a physical body in a new incarnation? And at

Title: Karmic Relationships, Volume IV: Lecture IX
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extraordinarily mixed blood according to his physical descent, this one
Metaphysicus who shall discover out of the spirit the guiding lines for

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture I: The Inner Experience of the Activity of Thinking
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functions it is, to begin with, only man's physical body
This physical body is permeated by what may be called the
your physical body. When you begin to exercise
when drawing a sketch of the physical body, one can insert into
trying to dissolve the physical substance of
day: physical matter, physical
forces. For our nourishment we take physical
nourishment this physical matter streams into
conditioned by its own chemical and physical
physical body only, for then we see, merely from the
merely refrains from making use of the physical body. (I have
sounding which is the opposite of physical
What is the modern physicist or
of one's physical body, but also one's power of thought that is
theories concerned with physical phenomena in nature
sculptor is to master the physical material. If I were also
wooden figure remains a sculpture only, as it has only physical
spiritual world is revealed. The physical
We bear within us the physical body consisting of
physical ingredients of the earth; we bear within us the

Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture II: The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
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The Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
Physical World and the Moral-Spiritual Impulses
the physical body, man has an etheric and an astral body. And
physical body, but always in a state of flux and movement,
one does in the physical body, isolated within
Whereas in his physical body man is accustomed to feel
physical world while riot yet firmly established
sounds in the outer, physical world, this deep silence
problem of imbuing his physical body, through which he is
membered into the physical world, with qualities which for him
animal world with which, in respect of his physical
physical-material nature and find that with part of his being
physical-material impulses, and the spiritual-moral impulses.
physical-material organisation calls for the introduction
duality of the physical-material and the spiritual-moral. Then
moral-spiritual impulses flow into the physical-material
the physical world, from his pre-earthly into his
earthly physical world, the world of dualism, of opposites, in
into this physical world in order that he may experience how in
this earthly physical world the spirit cannot really touch
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Title: Spiritual Development: Lecture III: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World
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envisaged man's organisation as composed of physical
Universe. It can be said that the physical body is
connected with all that is the physical, earthly
world of the senses; man's physical body is part of that world.
forces, which are those of the physical
universe to meet the outstreaming physical forces,
governing the physical body. — And again,
that cosmos which is contained in the Physical and the
three members of our world are the physical, the
experience while bound to the physical world of the
physical world appear in quite a different light in
and events encountered in the physical world are after
origins of our surroundings in the physical world. But apart
from that, when in the physical world we have, to begin with,
not with us in the physical world of the senses. The presence
physical world.
over the surface of things or in purely physical
in the physical world. In the same way, warmth
objects in the physical world of the senses.
the physical world colour-effect suggests a
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture I
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into that which exists in the pure external physical
etheric, astral and the spiritual by the side of the physical
physical life, another is more inserted into his ego, another
physical in one case, another more by the etheric, another
overpowering by the physical body. A light of understanding
which is in the physical body have Smerdyakov, a kind of
physical body and then His being broken up by the-great

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture II: Deeper Secrets of Man's Soul-Spiritual Nature
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body. Whereas the physical body of man is perceptible for the
the physical world, he perceives his thinking, his feeling
the actual inner being of man, just as with the physical body
know that man consists of physical body, ether body, astral
the first place within the physical world, so, to be sure,
whole thinking would remain unconscious to us as physical
we did not have a physical body. You cannot say the physical
physical materiality of the physical body, then our thoughts
here in the physical body can assert themselves through the
fact that we have this physical body. Thus you see how this
in their turn engrave their tracks into the physical body.
fetch them out of the memory again during the physical
here in the physical body. As you know, man has experiences.
physical sense organs cannot really know what is hidden
might say the sheaths of the physical body are so arranged
physical body is a mantle which hides our soul and in which
only occurs in us. With death we put our physical body in the
physical body and this is given over to the elements of the
during our physical life has lived in in us now has become a
merely physical body that only stands in connection with our
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture III: A Fragment from the Jewish Haggada, Blavatsky
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spiritual and physical can work together in a life in such a
Europe the physical bodies specially develop themselves, also
physical body, that should come out in a very primary way in
physical body is mechanized through as is the case in West
does not enter into the physical body as it occurs in West
does not permeate the physical body so much. In the Russian
development of the physical body. During this 5th
not imprint itself into the physical body. Hence, one can say
more powerful than all physical activity in so far as we are
the physical world and not to work out new concepts. All the
supposed to direct its glance at the external physical plane
physical striving of the Britishdom threatened to be confused
amount precisely because physical bodies had the most
significance of the physical body, that the ether body was
made least active, and that the physical body was regarded as
through with purely physical concepts, with that conceptual
material which you have when you think through the physical

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IV: Secrets of Freemasonry
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presence of an elementary world behind the physical world.
being who can be seen with present day physical eyes, but
Evolution. We already had our physical body during the Moon
evolution, but it was not physically visible but etherically
world, the reverence for the physical world, the reverence
physical hands together behind his back, then the ether hands
physical glance downwards, then his ether eyes turned
focus upon the physical brain intellect and the sensitivity
Murti Alcione being the physical carrier of Christ Jesus. And
acquired independently of ordinary physical knowledge. Now,
physical. In our fifth period, everyone in the first grade
knowledge, not in their physical body, not in their conscious

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture V: Comenius and the Temple of PanSophia
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did not have such a solid physical body in those ancient
development of his physical nature, was excluded from a
physical material that which presented itself in this way
the physical body of our 5th post-Atlantean period. One of
physical body.

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VI: Death and Resurrection
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whereas the ordinary forces which are bound to the physical
this. The physical hands and the ether hands both move, they
ether movements are there, but the physical movements are
thoughts be made much wider so that not only his physical ego

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VII: Man's Four Members
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today, we know the following. That which the physical eyes
side of this hunan being; it is the physical body. The ether
this physical body. However, one does not come very far at
than the physical body, it is mistier and more radiating. But
as it were, held together by the elasticity of the physical
force of the physical body as long as we are here between
physical body on the one hand from the ether body and on the
body. Then, because the elasticity of the physical body is no
elasticity of the physical body.
appear when we are able to separate the physical body away
elasticity of our physical body.
united through the elasticity of our physical body. As
physical man, we are human beings and we have received our
physical configuration during our earth existence from the
Spirits of Form. As physical man we hold all of that which is
attention on the physical body, you first see that the
has received his external physical configuration from the
is some form of movement in the physical body. The main
elasticity of the physical and the ether bodies. If you
consists of the physical body; of the ether body, of the
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Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture VIII: Thomas More and His Utopia
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aspect in the sense physical world. Therefore a correct
physical earth plane from spiritual heights in which it had
here in the physical world, the other soul which lives in a

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture IX: Celtic Symbols and Cult, Jesuit State in Paraguay
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are still spiritual forces in our physical environment, then
beings which would work directly upon the physical body.
Today man does not want his physical body influenced in any
The physical body has now become much harder and whenever
soft physical man for the 5th post-Atlantean period, you
being able to be worked on through their physical body. One
would work down upon the physical body and the physical body
this would then carry into the physical body by way of the
as their physical body was soft. Now, one must work
members — he has four members. The physical body, for

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XI: Fragments from the Jewish Haggada
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physical nature is concerned, man has torn himself loose from
pressing itself an the physical body which then presses out
not see a physical body, but he saw a spiritual being. What
descends from King Solomon, you have the physical

Title: Things Past and Present: Lecture XII: Luciferic Dangers from the East
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has is a physical body? Therefore he depicted Homunculus as a

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture I
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within the physical body between birth and death, we are struck by
of time in our physical earthly life, our life of soul enters into
soul and the physical body. In the spiritual world, memory, as
developed in the physical life, has only been needed since the
To this movement, the form of the physical body sets the boundary. It
up as it were within the confines of the physical body. When the
physical body is laid aside at death, the scroll unrolls and is now
which evolves because a force of resistance is offered by the physical
physical existence through birth, we come from a world in which, during
entrance into the physical body we are reft away from that world in
impulses of lofty spiritual Beings. Having entered physical
connection with the physical world to characterise the spiritual
those which apply to the physical world. At the same time, however,
insight into the nature of our physical existence.
to imagine that physical existence is something to be despised. I have
pointed out this mistake from many different points of view. Physical
in the course of the evolution of the soul we have a physical body
and by means of this physical body pass through certain earthly
we may transform them, in the physical body, into
absolutely natural, under the influence of the earthly, physical
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Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture II
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own being by the force of resistance offered by his physical body.
way from the spiritual into the physical world the truths of
physical world we need, first and foremost, this sense for truth; we
unknown world into the physical world in which we live. The original
the impulses for what happens here in the physical world. Spiritual
impulses for what ought to come to pass in the physical

Title: Memory and Habit: Lecture III
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Discoveries and the Human Physical Organization. Collisions between
sense-organ of the head? And the idea that what is physically
The physical
acquire the faculty for the perception of truth in this physical
must be developed here in the physical world. It is for this purpose
that we are placed in the physical world, where it behoves us to seek

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture One: Greetings to the Builders Working on the Goetheanum. Otto Weininger, a Decadent Genius. Distorted Pictures of Imaginative Knowledge.
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physical, historical existence? Now, you must remember what I have
separated from his physical and etheric bodies, we would have
while separated from the sleeping physical and etheric bodies. Only in
his physical and etheric bodies. In our times, what would Weininger
while outside his own physical and etheric bodies, for these can only
manifest themselves outside the physical and etheric bodies. Then he
would have been able to submerge again in his physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies. Then he would not have believed that he
needed to present these truths by deriving them from the physical
the following. Imagine that this is Weininger's physical body, and
astral body and I submerge in the physical body and are inside it.
the physical body. There it acquires the vitality which otherwise
and which should remain there, are pressed into the physical body. The
to come to expression in the physical man which would receive its
the physical body in a manner for which it is not intended? What
clarifies it as regards the way it has been pressed into the physical
influenced his physical and etheric bodies as they did. That is
individuality's physical and etheric bodies on the one hand, his

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Two: Two Spheres of Existence in Nature and in Man: the Realm of Regularity and the Realm of Irregularity. The Ancient Hebrews' Jubilee year as the Expression of Formative Powers of the Soul. The Christ Incarnation.
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more and more to the physical plane — to become materialistic.
of the spiritual world on the physical world. Think of Numa Pompilius,
about establishing institutions here on the physical plane. The story
times there was a tendency for physical life to be arranged so that

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Three: The Duality of Human Nature -- The Heavenly and the Earthly Aspects of Man. Uranus and Gaia. Influences of One Incarnation on the Next: Metamorphoses of the Body.
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confused and they can only picture it in terms of the physical senses.
around all one's pictures of the physical world. Nothing very special
The land I am describing is not in the physical world; it belongs to
the physical world, viewed the spiritual world as the only real world.
reversal of what the appearances in the physical world would lead you
between the last death and a new birth. The physical head must be
follow the path of physical birth and physical heredity. The rest of
his head, has just been introduced into the physical world and still
those who observe a human being physically are observing falsely. I
physical distinction between what one calls masculine or feminine
later. For materialism, the physical is all that there is, so what
is spirit. The physical organs are not even intended for sexuality
in saying: ‘A human being comes into this physical world from the
the physical world for seven years before it can produce the masculine

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Four: Human Organism, Results of Prenatal Formative Powers. Dual Nature of Man. Powers behind the Existence of the Body as Expressed Pictorally by the Body and as Expressed in a Draughtsmanlike Fashion by the Head.
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out in the human soul. The Greeks always saw the entire, physically
physical head. But they are the forces that cause the physical shape
cosmos. That is the real truth. Of course it is only when physical
time. The physical matter crystallises more or less within the field
more like a drawing. The head we see with our physical eyes has less
the body our physical eyes see is more like what stands behind it. The
physical eyes we are seeing something that more closely resembles what
super-sensible — even when he is here in the physical world
significant truths. A person develops here on the physical plane by
worth, and of truth, refer to a concrete physical thing. Even for the
man living here in the physical world, these three things point to the
the physical world, everything to do with truth is related to the
forces that are developed by means of the physical head. Indeed, it is
between the physical head and the external, earthly world —
acknowledge it on the physical plane — is ill, is he not? Thus,
not regarded as being necessary for a human being here in the physical
physical external world, but rather to the spiritual forces and powers
body, the etheric body and, finally, the physical body. Therefore, if
etheric body, and then into the physical body. Now it becomes
to be approached in a sphere where physical truths, as well as the
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Five: How a Person Grows into the Three Spiritual Realms of Wisdom, Beauty and Goodness. How These Shine Down into the Spiritual Part of Man.
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physical body. We know that in a certain sense the three lower realms
descending to the physical plane and growing into the mineral, plant
of physical existence on earth. With all such descriptions you must be
being grows and which are left behind when physical existence is once
being, lilac, and everything to do with the physical human being, red.
Greeks felt and experienced the relationship between the physical and
moral ideas, it nevertheless streams into the physical person, into
sphere takes hold of the whole physical human being. And the head is
into the whole physical body, which is actually invisible, as I showed
uprightness, streams into the whole physical body. This gives us a
with art, are to be located in the physical body (red).
breast, where its life already affects the physical body (red). If we
All of the preceding lives in the aura of the physical plane and
therefore applies to the physical plane. In this instance, that into
which we enter after death participates in the aura on the physical
plane. Just as our physical organism connects us to the forces of the
context of the whole. One can say: Whereas it is our physical body
that connects us with the realm of physical becoming, our brain
not physically visible, the way a person is taken hold of and received
thought!’ The day represents physical life, physical perception,
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Six: The Transformation of the Physical Body into the Head of the Next Incarnation. The Cosmic Significance of Human Knowledge.
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The transformation of the physical body into the head of the next
physical body into the head of the next incarnation. They would have

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Seven: The Connection between the Human Being and the Cosmos. The Twelve Regions of the Senses and the Seven Life Processes.
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physically inward, more bodily inward. Through feelings of well-being

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eight: How Twelvefoldness, Sevenfoldness, Fourfoldness, and Threefoldness are Mirrored. Pathological Experiences of the Soul. Thinking Backward as a Preparation for Spiritual Experience.
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The physical organs associated with the senses are more like the
particular physical organ: the sense of sight around the eyes —
there we hear without the presence of physical air, whereas here the
physical medium of the air must be present in order for us to hear
the physical world. When we come to the sense of warmth as it is in
expanses of the cosmos. Here, it is hidden away in our physical
physical world of earthly existence.
next earthly incarnation. Everything in our physical organism that is
side of the threshold. In physical existence such a knowing consists
has been! It was a hysterical pregnancy with all the physical symptoms
these were only transmitted to his physical body very gradually. And
continue to think as we think in the everyday physical world, using
physical world. That is how the spiritual world is. It reverses many
aspects of the physical world. I have often pointed out to you that it
physical world; among the powers that one needs to develop are the
thinking backwards, just as they take hold of the physical world by
means of thinking forwards. Our ability to imagine the physical world
spiritual sense as far as the physical world goes — that the
On the physical plane, a musical ear listens with deep satisfaction to
for music is one of the most profound things we have on the physical
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Nine: Enlivening the Sense Processes and Ensouling the Life Processes. Aesthetic Enjoyment and Aesthetic Creativity. Logic and the Sense for Reality.
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despised. For we have seen that here in the physical world it is
dependent on the physical world — equally so the ego sense, the
hierarchies as spiritual sympathy or antipathy. Physical balance, as
we know it here in our physical bodies, is not the only thing the
spirituality plays into the physical world, it is of no use to turn to
soul-spiritual nature is related to our physical, bodily nature. In
applies it to the physical world and behaves accordingly. In other
person becomes powerless if, his physical body is too weak to stand up
against the vision. If the physical body is strong enough to stand up
made ill by them. Thus, if the physical body is strong enough to
that precisely those senses that are most adapted to the physical
thought and the sense of physical touch must be wholly transformed,
processes in the physical world.
taken as far as physical secretion. The first point is that the
process should remain on the soul level and not lead to physical
secretion, even though physical secretion is based on exactly the same
revive the capacity for grasping and understanding the physical world
understand the physical. The spirit is alive in everything physical.
physical. Just ask yourselves, what could someone who knows nothing of
does engender processes that reach right into the physical body and
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Ten: Loss of the Ability to Orient Oneself in Reality and the Helplessness of Modern Scientific Driteria in a Materialistic Age.
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recently. Initially, the physical sciences were his field. He turned
Physics, physiology, biology, sociology — they all falter about
elementary physics that sound requires a certain time to get from here
the physical body, the physical brain and the whole physical system.
not able to extend its development into the physical body and
with the help of the physical body, needs to be annexed to the soul.
physical body does not participate in the development of memory. I am

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Eleven: Memory and Habit as Metamorphoses of Former Spiritual Experiences that were Subject to Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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between birth and death, living in the physical body. Among other
physical body. It is only during the Earth period of evolution that
memory, in the form in which we develop it in our physical, earthly
physical body marks the boundary of these accompanying movements. To a
feelings and experiences of will, is rolled up within the physical
the world substance when the physical body is laid aside in death.
in response to the physical body's forces of resistance. The situation
through birth into physical existence resembles our previous state on
karma. When we enter the physical body we are torn from this world in
enter physical existence. This expresses itself in the way we behave
using words that apply to the physical world, it is true. But again
as possible from that in which we picture the physical world. Only in
development, earthly, physical existence has its purpose. We reap
physical body and by way of what we experience under the influence of
memory and habit, which are gifts of the physical body. Gradually, in
mineral forces at work in the physical organism of the Earth. In that
physical world and what has been revealed here. We have been
objects, only appear for the first time in the physical world. Objects
surround us. We picture them in our thoughts. What we call physical
the physical level of existence. If we express an idea for which the
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Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Twelve: How Thoughts are Engraved into the Substance of the Cosmos and the Consequences Following from This. Metamorphosis of Memory and Habit.
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physical body. They are engraved in his own etheric substance and are
physical world.
physical. As I have often explained — even in public lectures
the physical world. A right and true understanding of the impulses of
what needs to happen in the physical world. And, I should like to say,

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Thirteen: Allocation of the Whole Human Form to the Cosmos. Technical Discoveries and the Human Physical Organization. Collisions between Thinking that Accords with Reality and Thinking that is in Opposition to Reality.
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discoveries and the human physical organisation. Collisions between
living being; nothing has the character, typical of the physical
facts of the physical world. The right way of experiencing the
spiritual world must be developed here in the physical world. That is
why we have been placed in the physical world: it is our task here to

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fourteen: Metamorphoses of the Twelve Sense Zones through Luciferic and Ahrimanic Influences.
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from forces of the physical world during the time between our
in our encounters with another I in the physical
external world while we are here in the physical world. As you know,
entire body an organ of perception. So the whole perceptible, physical
we ourselves, as physical human beings, constitute the largest of our
our entire organism is expressed physically, it is the organ for
the physical organism that bears the life within us, that is the organ
ability to bring our bodies into movement is provided by the physical
organism. This is not the physical organism of life, but the physical
did not possess the physical apparatus of movement. It is really true:
I ; the physical basis of life: sense organ for
without using a physically perceptible speech, to communicate by
a coarse physical reflection of the way it once was, and only through
was actually intended for the physical plane. Only through these
physical plane, we now are. And there remains to us, free from these

Title: Lecture: Riddle of Humanity: Lecture Fifteen: The Twelve Senses. The Reorganization of the Seven Life Processes by Luciferic and Ahrimanic Powers. Francis Bacon Inaugurates Materialism and the Science of Idols.
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the possibility of external, physical propagation. In accordance with
expressed: Between birth and death we live here in a physical body.
physical being — the very fact that we possess a human form
— is dependent on the Sun. Thus, the Sun, taken as a physical
Earth. But, taken in the first place as a physical body, it is the Sun
that makes it possible for us to live as physical men on the Earth.
but in a physical sense: ‘Jupiter's grace’. And only through
physical human constitution. Through the agency of Saturn we are not
For our soul-spiritual nature is physically expressed by the colour of
by purely physical wisdom, which stays on the surface of things
in the experiments of the physicist, in the clinic. The important book

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 1: Secret Brotherhoods-1, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-1, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 1
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from the physical body, as you know, soon after death, and is

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 2: Secret Brotherhoods-2, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-2, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 2
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prepared to accept only what could be known in physical terms
world agree just as little as do human actions on the physical
does when someone takes a decision on the physical plane. This
relation to impulses on the physical plane. In earlier times it

Title: Wrong and Right Use: Lecture 3: Secret Brotherhoods-3, -or- Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge-3, -or- Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World-Part 3, -or- German Philosophy: Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Goethe
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working on the physical body — preparations are

Title: Historical Necessity: Lecture 1: On the Functions of the Nervous System
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so-called physical world and the spiritual really lies. This
this boundary-line between the physical world and the
glance at the boundary-line between the physical world and
impulse of the will has nothing in common physical
between physical and spiritual experience; it is the bodily
link with his own physical body as a soul-being. This
connection with his own physical body is transmitted through
the sphere of physics. Inasmuch as this process demands an
explanation by means of physics, the explanation will be only
a little more complicated than that of another physical
This is the plain physical process, a reflex movement, except
Darkness. The boundary line between physical and spiritual
us into the physical world, so that we may have sensations in
the physical world. The other piece of nerve, indicated in
the same. In the one case we experience something physical is
We are connected with the exterior physical world, but we are
the Earth this process is not yet physical; it takes place on
boundary-line between the experiencing in the physical world
man with the physical world, and everything below
only an inferior kind of physical image, you will be able to
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in the last lecture I drew attention more to the physical
everyday physical world and the spiritual world, cuts
physical side, today more from the side of the soul, then we
may say: While we are incarnated here in the physical body,
most strongly connected with our physical existence; dreaming
also, the threshold lies between the actual physical world of
physical plane, so that we are able to receive impressions
incarnated in the physical body. For observe, when you ask
physical body. Just as for us the plant world, which sprouts
live in the physical body. For just conceive for a moment how
taken out of the world which you perceive with your physical
body, about which you, in your physical body, form concepts.
long as we are incarnated in the physical body, the essential
from the human being here in the physical world by the
handicrafts, and thereby create the physical sensible basis
physical human being. If human beings were to have this
created here on the physical plane. Essentially, the earth
physical earth. But out of what human beings have created by
souls are embodied here in physical bodies or have already
are physically embodied, are bound together with our
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what we may call the threshold between the usual physical
spiritual world is so entirely different from the physical,
people only wish to form conceptions based on the physical
to forming other ideas than those borrowed from the physical
and human physical world in the life between birth and death
physical world man is, as it were, the crown of creation
physical world feels, in a certain sense, that the physical
cannot be won in the physical world of the senses. In this
from ourselves. Here in the physical world we make our
we may however say: — Just as here, in our physical
physical body. The dead who is passing through the life
physical tree ceases and an elementary tree begins, so also

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This life, that does not extend as far as our physical body,
and that cannot be perceived, therefore, with the physical
breath. The etheric foundation of our lung (the physical lung
such a way that here on the physical plane the foundation of
and sense organs from a physical aspect, here in the physical
the physical organization of the head and the physical
awake we breathe into our physical system, as it were, our
This head is much wiser than our physical head. All human
appears as our physical head, although this is dulled down to
an example of the great difference between the physical world
we imagine anything in the physical world we are used to
vowels — are for us, here on the physical plane. The
read in the cosmos; the physical letters are a reflection of

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physical plane, and on the other, into all that is connected
roughly in man what we may call his physical nature, or his
physical body; his etheric body, or the body of formatives
physical plane through incarnation, it remains indeed in the
we possess this four-fold nature — the physical body,
the physical plane and for the usual waking consciousness;
this in regard to your physical body. You must say: My
physical body is 35 years old — then this will be
years old, when your physical body is 35 years old. You see,
physical body has reached the age of 7 years. His etheric
speed as the physical body and has not yet reached this age.
course of time. This physical body that is 7 years old has
3 months old when the physical body is 7 years old, because
development on the physical plane. On the physical plane this
someone is 28 years old as far as his physical body is
development than that of the physical body. You see, the
depend on his physical body. He says something that has
to his physical body. His statement would only have a meaning
the case of the physical body. One might also say that the
the physical body.
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something that you can see outside in physical Nature. If the
life? The physical eye sees that eggs, or germs, perish in
and does not reach the stage of physical living beings,
beings on the physical plane. Inasmuch as we are physical
develops every year from physical life as an ascending
physical, etheric, and astral body and ego (roughly speaking)
is 28 only as far as his physical body is concerned (I said
human being of 28, is really 28 years old only as a physical
to his physical body, this child of 7 is indeed connected
applied to the relationship of the physical body with its
part which concerns the physical body. We can speak of a
the physical body with its surroundings. Of what must we
who enters the physical world from the spiritual world, and
proceeds to a physical incarnation, is a physical necessity.
every human being in the physical world is a miracle, a
wonder. The entrance into the physical world of the human
being that is 7 years old when the physical body is 28 is
be discovered in the surrounding physical world. If we wish
show visible signs in the outer physical world. But this
physical world has no significance for the historical course
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everywhere what is real, be it outer physical reality, or
here in the physical.
foundation here in the physical world and which,
associate with the plant and mineral world of our physical
etheric body and the physical. This boundary must exist,
consciousness for the physical plane is at the same time the

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gradual and then runs its course to full physical maturity.

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In relation to the community life at the physical level
think of it in connection with community life, the physical
the physical plane, liberty on the psychic plane and equality

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terminology of physics, not a problem of pressure, but of
the metaphysician see in the universe the realization of
realities of the physical plane. They have the history of the
physical plane, we can only create if we are aware that
in everything we create. On the physical plane the most
are active throughout the whole of physical life are less
They have aged physically, their hair has turned grey, they

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man, are responsible for his physical death. Certain forces,
fundamental feeling that what the physical eyes perceive of

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mathematics, physics, chemistry and especially for projective

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capable of developing physically up to the age of fifty; in
time, therefore, mankind matures physically at an ever
the divine and spiritual with the human and physical in the
human and physical nature of Jesus. This was the central
the physical world (Solovieff wishes to spiritualize the
that the Kingdom of God operates on the physical plane in the
same way as the laws of the physical world. Jesuitism,
something which, if need be, must exist on the physical

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which exists here on the physical plane, so that, despite the
circumstances on the physical plane, the soul unites with the
it envisaged an external structure on the physical plane
physically ill in some respect — to arrive at the idea of
physical plane. But the mystery of His incarnation remains.
physically at an ever earlier age. Today mankind as a whole
characteristic feature of external physical reality is that
physical plane the present state-systems must be replaced
there exists on the physical plane something which in reality
whilst on the external physical plane fraternity seeks to
physical plane, i.e. freedom, has manifested itself on the
physical plane and has organized it. Of course in so far as
men live on the physical plane and freedom dwells in the
souls of men, it belongs to the physical plane; but where
place for freedom. On the physical plane, for example,

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he is no mere physical being. In times of instinctive

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the metaphysical legalistic way of thinking has taken such
distinguishing the physical from the psychical. The table
outside us is physical and psychical in precisely the same
sense as my ideas are physical and psychical: and we only
physical and the psychical. And yet I am impelled again and
something out there, quite physically. And again when I have

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physical plane) has still been said from the standpoint of an
scene of the physical world of sense — the battle

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us through our living together with other men on the physical
physical Earth without any other men. There are many facts
from the physical plane by this dread catastrophe and who are
kept them on the physical Earth.
purely physical plane. The blessings of the physical plane
the physical world. For the physical world itself will only

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out of the spiritual worlds into this physical world? Well, we
are born into this physical world (tomorrow and next day I will
born into this physical world because here on this earth there are
things we must descend into this physical world, and from this world
down into this physical world; our very spirit in its quest for
knowledge must dive down into this physical world. For the sake of
the spiritual world, we must immerse ourselves in this physical
we have a physical science which is taught in its most diversified
carried on, and so forth, and physical science comes into being. With
side with this physical science there are the religions
that is, one of our physical sciences: the nonsense that there are
on the one hand a science of the physical world, and on the other a
time a physical science. We shall attain that only when we take

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— we might say — did not unite the physical congregation,
disciples (it is not necessary to think of physical history, but of
physical view of the world) — if you imagine, as was believed
physical world. Therefore about many things it must speak differently
essential opponents of the physical human being living here on earth

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external physical science with its great triumphs, the materialistic
impulses which have been entering our physical world since the last
We say that man is provided with physical body, etheric body, astral
body, and ego. At first only the physical and etheric bodies come
into consideration for the physical sense world. The etheric body
found only when we are freed from time. The physical body is in
the spiritual worlds exactly as we walk through the physical air.
physically in the earth-body. You carry your head on your shoulders,
through the gate of death, we carry into the physical earth, by means
exists in the spiritual worlds before we enter into the physical
comprehend how forces play into this physical world from the
the physical world.

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life-steeped-in-wisdom, peculiar to it, which was entirely physical
the physical realm, illness and death; in the cultural realm,

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physical, and even in the physical domain, mechanical-mathematical.

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physical organisation of the head. It is only through the completely
coming into this physical world, in order to make independent of the
physical sense-world into the spiritual, perceive in the alterations
windows of the physical world, and observes the spiritual world

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world into the physical, he passes through conception. He remains for
to show, even at the very genesis of his physical earthly existence,
with our Ego and astral body united with our etheric and physical
from the etheric and physical bodies.
often said that the physicist would be greatly astonished if he could

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transmutation of physical matter. Man in fact dwells in three worlds;
astral body leave our physical and etheric bodies. It must not be
difficult for the physicist to speak of Ether, for he thinks that
constituted as physical man and ether man, is both pressing and
and suction, physical and etheric; the other, the second —
astral. The astral is neither physical nor etheric but is continually
speaking now in the sense of physics, and I shall have to show later
course, here we are speaking not of physical sunlight, but of the
the worlds that are physically perceptible and see how these laws are

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our physical body, composed of ponderable matter which it
interpenetrates the etheric and physical bodies. But the etheric body
different relation is established between the etheric and physical
the physical plane? No, he is not; we have seen that the physical
astral body and Ego from his physical and etheric bodies, he finds
part of Man which is no longer connected with the physical and
etheric; they act upon it as powerfully as food upon the physical
body. It is just this descent into the physical that is the cause of
it is outside the physical body, we have to co-ordinate it to the
far as he ceases to act through the organs of his physical body —
inner physical formation-process stands in a certain relation to the
digestive processes, etc.; in fact, all the inner physical processes
super-physical during the whole of our life. (These processes are
its weight physically, you raise it to your lips; the process is still
physical. But as soon as you dissolve it on the tongue and it enters
physical organisation, you are no longer in the realm of the Earthly,
us), so do we similarly sever ourselves from earthly physical and
physical bodies in such a way as to withdraw the etheric from the
physical, the absorbent force is then absent, and only ponderable

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transformation of the forces within him from the preceding physical
first essentials of physical health. It is a rhythm that embraces day
the Ego and astral body are separated from the physical and etheric.
place within Man. For only by a study of the changes within physical
Consideration of the circumstances connected with physical existence
here we see how the consideration of physical conditions compels a

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physically from other lower forms. It then shows how, during the
transformation taking place between two physical lives, the whole
to-morrow meet you again and recognise you, you are physically present
name of the physical organ that has very much to do with this
first place, have to do with music. But the outer physical liver is,
As I pointed out yesterday, physical Man adheres internally to the
transmute what is physical and bodily into soul and spirit.

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his physical metabolism is concerned, depends upon the Earth's
products of the Earth to his physical metabolism. And the part of the
discovered in the physical world than in the visible stellar world.
visible starry heavens, unless man combines with the outer physical
life the super-physical in his considerations — that
super-physical part of his life through which he passes between death
physical sense? Of heredity! We observe how the child-organism is
must once again remind you of the following. The modern physicist or
matter but otherwise similar to physical matter; then comes the astral
back and front, for even in this diversity of the physical appearance
three-dimensional physical matter extending in a three-fold way in
of ether and physical matter, and on the other hand, the astral
‘hollow’ in physical matter and therefore the essential
antithesis of physical matter; it also can be perceived.
the physicist claims to be a ball of gas, but which is in reality
the lines by which he develops through the forces of physical
within itself its immediate purpose, neither does a physical

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physical, etheric and astral bodies, together with the Ego-being, are
one side, the physical and etheric bodies united, and on the other
materialistic theosophy that we have first coarse physical matter, and
relationship with the lower physical organisation of man. The deeper
The physical is thus seen to be a direct expression of the Spiritual.
It is possible to understand the physical man as an expression of the
physical world explains itself and brings the spiritual world into
can at the same time enter right into physical life. If a man is not
prepared to see the relation of the physical to the spiritual aright,
both a spiritual Event and an Event of the physical plane. When in the

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same with the human head. Man does many things in the physical world
reveals itself in the outer physical world. So too, we see the forces
relationship of the soul-and-spirit and the physical-corporeal, and
does now in what man brought into the world at physical birth. We may
descending to physical life. In later life however, and indeed very
what he brings into physical existence at birth. Man will not

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time you are a physical human being, and you are moreover a
complete human being, possessing physical body, etheric body,
until awaking. Then you have only physical body and etheric body. You
are physical man, but you are not man; you have only physical body and
physical body and etheric body become really an untruth, for a being
virtue of the fact that these will return before the physical and
re-enter our physical and etheric bodies, it is as though the summer
physical world, we are carried into it by Saturn and Jupiter; while we
pass from physical to super-sensible forces; so in the same way, to

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nature is Astro-physics, the theory that sets out to study the
accessible to the senses. Now one of the greatest Astro-physicists is
everyday life we alternately separate physical body and etheric body
rather looser connection between the physical and etheric bodies on
physical and etheric bodies remain always together between
between the etheric and physical; and this is again expressed in the
means it works upon the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the
connected as regards our physical and etheric bodies with something
Ego and astral body be traced to the same origin as his physical and

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of man's physical being, as though he could be considered
independently. This cannot be done. As physical being, Man is not a
physical nature. He is a reality as a being of soul and spirit, a
between birth and death — the physical and etheric bodies — are not
our physical nature.
can be born at any time; but his life here as physical man
earthly phenomena, biological, physical and chemical. It would be
every time he falls asleep it leaves his physical and etheric bodies
is in the unconscious, it remains with the physical and etheric bodies

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physicist holds this view. Although in popular consciousness men are
is a secondary effect, but not the actual physical occurrence. The
actual physical occurrence was the spent force of the horses, the
physicist of today, but it is applicable to the construction of a
to say of the moral order and the physical order always harmonised.
was carried into the Physical, and the Physical raised to the Moral.
physical form of man?
When I speak here of the physical form of man, I must ask you to take
primary physical origin, in a spiritual way in the Universe? I have

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and so forth. This is, roughly speaking, left to the physician; and
of the physical, and everything else is a side-stream, a secondary
— inwardly, not outwardly; not by physical anatomy, but by inner
from his physical aspect only. In so doing we only find in the cranium
that pulp described by our physical anatomy! What it describes is
starry heavens. To describe the physical brain by itself, is like
I have emphasised how astonished the physicists would be if they could
The physician has been relegated to the purely physical, the priest to
when it comes to considering everything outside the physical as a
side-issue — horses, coach, these are real to the physical
is a side-issue? When physicians such as Julius Robert Mayer make
philosophy, they make physics; and when the adherents of
quite foreign to one another, the materialistic physician of the

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into the physics of our Earth, until we understand how, even in
physical things, the Christian substance works in the world-existence.
has transformed into soul and spirit with physical existence, if we
the roundabout way here indicated, to seek the moral in the physical.
scarcely arrive at the connection of the moral with the physical in
thoughts up there; and we look down into the physical-material.
human instinct, still a physical as well as a soul aspect. We can
the counterpart of physical warmth. This soul-warmth however, does not
arise through a physical change in the sense of Julius Robert Mayer's
feeling we call ‘warm’ gives the picture of outer, physical
soul-warmth will in a future cosmic existence play a physical part,
become physical when the Earth-warmth has disappeared, for it is what
delicate connection between external physical warmth and that which
other; how he unites the material-moral with the physical
external and physical. Then we arrive at one aspect of how a moral

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spiritual beings. Though our Earth may look to physical sight
physical external earth, it is through this that in the main we
one says: Man descends from star- worlds to physical birth that
physical materiality, we stand here, as it were, estranged from
we are exposed to the threat of growing hardened in physical
the physical star-world is not a particularly noticeable
physical external world.
physical concepts, such concepts have only a narrow, limited
the connection of the soul with the physical body, and when
similar to physical existence and likewise lose the
these then become hardened in the physical body. And then man
appear again in a physical body. The Ahrimanic approach is the
physical existence on earth.
makes of it. It will not be what physical forces make of it.
These physical forces will die out and have no significance for
of the physical, senses, that is, in going along in a muse
star-worlds and only form concepts of what I see physically,

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cosmos, if they penetrate not only the physical nature of the
modern Physics — feel how from such a universe the Christ
physical world does not simply happen of itself. Man is
physical organism within the physical world. And something is
in the physical world; at most he pays a certain heed to

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world of physical nature; he stands in a spiritual world as
world to disappear, the physical human world to disappear, the
physical laws to remain. Above all they would like human beings
experiences here in physical life he carries with him through

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physical-mineral realm. You must be quite clear that when in
to what is mineral and physical. Just consider how
asks him to speak of anything but what is mineral or physical.
physical. This science, in order that it might become an
Christ-element, it developed entirely within that physical
physical-sensible alone, because man has not yet been able to
beings in this sphere, because when man is born into physical
and spirit and surrounds himself with physical matter. But in
he begins with physical birth or conception, and then to link
existed before he was born or conceived into physical life. In
of our physical existence, so we must learn to speak of

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developments in the nineteenth century when the physical body,
is completely immersed in the physical. Shorthand. Today, physical,
material processes of his physical body. Theoretical
materialism has studied all the processes of the physical,
confluence of these physical forces; his soul nature is
workings of these physical forces. It is theoretical
physical nature of the human being, and it is this, the
extensive examination of man's physical nature, that must
as a conclusion from this physical research is something that
serve as the physical organs of human intellectual activity
the intellect of man requires, of course, physical organs. In
earlier ages, these physical organs were far less developed
physical sense, as had men of the nineteenth century.
depends on man's physical organs of thought. We need not even
of its physical form and that since that time it has been
natural to have to say that with death the physical structure
is inaccessible to physical sensory observation. Take a fact
structure. In turn, the structure of the physical body grew
particularly needs the physical body.
aided them in this thinking the most was the physical body.
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his physical being, may be designated as the organization of
what goes on materially and physically in the human brain. At
calls us into physical life and maintains digestion in this
physical life. By developing within our organism the activity
ordinary physical life every form of cognition is actually
explains the difficulty of seeing in the external physical
we become familiar externally through physics and chemistry,
birth into the external physical world, all that is

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with physical-corporeal matter. They would have yielded
within physical matter. It is true that this insight did not
physical corporeal element, they understood something of the
the physical-corporeal nature. In former times, this was an

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physical cosmological observation. In very ancient times,
etheric in contrast to our physical astronomy — in the
bring it about that a physical body is fitted into this
as the etheric body then expresses itself in the physical
body, only to that extent was the physical body related to
physical destinies of the human being in the way physical
heliocentric system as a kind of esoteric-physical science, a
is actually physical in man — at least, in what manifests
through the physical body — this ancient teaching also
the physical impressions of the etheric soul temperaments
ancient etheric astronomy to modern physical astronomy. The
century and physical astronomy took the place of the old
based on man's physical thinking and takes hold only of the
physical realm. We see how, on the one hand, purely physical
he comprehends only in a physical sense and in which he
solidly bounded, physical, organic being. He can no longer
physical astronomy with what dwells in his form and points to

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to the physical Jerusalem over in the East, namely, when the
It led to the physical Jerusalem, not to the spiritual
in the turn to the East, the eastward journey to the physical
people set out to find a physical country, the physical
to seek the physical East after the spiritual East had been
with the methods of external, physical astronomy, they
knowledge about the physical nature of the human being,
physical blood. When a true medical knowledge has grasped the

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opposite view. To us, the physical-sensory world is given.
On the premise of the physical world, we try to discover
so on; based on this physical, sensory world, we try to prove
ancient Orientals tried to comprehend the physical, sensory
environment on the basis of the superphysical, supersensory
physical, sensory world was to them only darkness and
prior to descending into the physical material world. The
and the sensory-physical element of their being, and because
soul-spiritual and the corporeal-physical in reference to
his physical nature; he sensed his ego by means of his
physical being. Here, the difference became evident between
totality of man in the physical-sensory realm, out of the
human physical and sensory ego incarnation, they arrived at
the physical-sensory, human sphere.
by means of his physical organization. This I, which
discovers itself through the physical organization, must in
experience of the ego was initially tied to the physical
own physical organization. An understanding for this riding
experience its impulse in the physical organization. It had
to connect itself firmly with the physical organization, but
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spiritual-physical world experience. And with all of his

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as the force proceeding from etheric body that forms the physical body
1. Physical Body
“1. physical body, 2. ether body, 3. astral body, 4.
this: The physical body is delimited as an integrated whole,
their five physical fingers. We, too, count with the fingers,
else is located between etheric body and physical body.
is imprinted by the etheric body into our physical body out
etheric to the physical body. Finally, in the transition from
Physical Body

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man's physical body (red). As I said, I am making a schematic
whole world actually dwells in man's physical, etheric, and
astral bodies. We can say, in this physical body lives the
human being in a superphysical manner, effects that express
connected with his physical body, his etheric, and astral
submerged with his ego and astral body into his physical and
and astral body and his etheric body and physical
corporeality. And he not only dwelled in his physical body,
physical limbs and dwelled within them.
that is completely tied to the mere physical body in its
dependence of man on his isolated physical body made itself
independently of all aspects of the physical
attained from their physical and etheric bodies as well as

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etheric activity has completely impressed itself into physical body,
out of modern physics and physiology and speak about light,
began to think with their physical bodies. When we think, we
physical body. This is the great difference that becomes
its course in the physical body (dark). Each such line of the
is then found in the physical body.
seal on the physical body. The development from the fifteenth
brought about in the physical body by the actual thought
really think with the physical body but that this is merely a
nervous? When the physical nerves make themselves felt.
Something then makes itself felt that, from a physical
physically and morally ...
physical body where it leads only a subjective existence.
Psycho-Physics
soul, the outer physical, sensory life can receive its social

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nineteenth century, the human organization, in the physical
spiritual soul worlds into a physical corporeality,
where the physical body increasingly acquired the maturity to
least among the most advanced human beings, the physical
started to flow down in a certain way into the physical,

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an occupation, of the human physical body. Whereas this
become an activity of the physical body since that time. This
after all, from the more intensive union of the physical body
position to carry out something completely nonphysical with
their physical body, namely, intellectual activity, human
mentally only to the physical world. And as I attempted to
Christianity was in regard to its metaphysical view prior to
an awareness of the fact that what is linked to the physical
acquire the physical body, the spirit that can never become

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arrive at a conception of the sun. The physicist believes
physical entity that moves about somewhere out there in the
evolution, upon the earth. The human race in its physical
consideration, first of all, that he is a physical body. This
forces into this physical body. But the latter is also taken
stands in the middle between physical and astral body.
that they are active in the physical body, and, in the manner
the physical and astral bodies we find something else that is
physical body the human being is part of the earth, because
birth when the human being is present physically in the life
relationship to the physical body. When a person cannot sleep
emerge from the etheric and physical bodies, when it does not
does not fit itself properly into the physical body, then
astral body to the human physical and etheric bodies. By
use his astral body in the physical body in a more efficient
astral body does not fit properly into the whole physical
cosmos. On the one hand, with the physical body, the human
period when his physical organ of thinking is in the stage of
physical organization. Human beings learn to speak because

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mankind in general was capable of physical and soul
abstractions of physics into a region where the creative
element, which physics with its dreadful diagrams lets slide
spears, remind us of a procedure that, though more physical
entered from a pre-earthly existence into this physical
existence. At the time of the departure of the moon, physical

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physical sensory world. We can then draw our conclusions from
think with the physical body, and only since the beginning of
physical body. It is normally not recognized that during this
with the physical but with the etheric body. This thinking
people. Human beings did not think at all with their physical
physical, sensory world, yet have something to do with this

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was believed to be connected with the physical community of
from the physical things of the earth; they were supposed to
that caused people to seek Christ in a more physical manner

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approaches for this being to descend to the physical earth,
Therefore, there were hosts of physicians in Egypt who
civilization, specialized physicians were at work, and their
expressed by Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician and
half physical in moving the fluids.
normal course. This is why the physician has the special task
observing the illness. If the activity of the physical body
physician must guide matters in such a way that this crisis
escape. Then it is the physician's task to intervene in a
of the soul-spiritual element. The physician accomplishes
the case of the physician Galen
what they had seen in full physical and soul-spiritual

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of physically pre-determined tendencies? Particular attention is
physical tool of the spiritual life. We have often mentioned
that if it were only the physical weight of the brain that
rhythm but are fully enmeshed in the outer physical life. If
that new place. In our human body, we are as much physical
beings as the physical beings of the other kingdoms of
hypotheses of physicists can maintain that the same natural
how surprised the physicists would be if they were able to
ascend to the place where the sun is. Physicists regard the
unlike what the physicists imagine. If this (sketching)
act as objects in the physical world, we live in the same
movement of man — that is, a definitely physical
physical bearer of the spiritual life, the nerve-sense
merely to the physical human being once he has died and lies
in the grave! There his substances, his entire physical body,
physics and chemistry. What it is possible for you to learn
physical characteristics but extended to everything that
thereby have it in my stomach, that is, in my physical body;
not conceiving of the physical water; rather, what lay at the

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of physically pre-determined tendencies? Particular attention is
outside the physical and etheric bodies. What permeates the
he is led not only outside his physical body but beyond
which the human being also finds himself as physical man. It
forms cannot be explained by means of outer physical
found in physical space, he is very much fooling himself. In
physical space one can never find an explanation for the
physical world. The great cultural defect of our time is that
physicist derives only from the earth element differentiated

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of physically pre-determined tendencies? Particular attention is
death and a new birth and has entered into physical, sensory
intuition is the physical body. We may say, therefore, that
intuitions is the human physical body, which can only come
physical body actually consists of solid substance only to
of the element of air, and so forth. This human physical body
that the elasticity of this physical body were to be
pressed out of the physical body. The illness that expresses
to something unhealthy in the physical body, which presses
what materialists state it to be. Our physical body is, in
as something entirely bound up with the physical body. It is
thinking perishes as such with the physical body, it ceases
when the physical body ceases to exist. What you often find
bound up with the physical body. The part that survives the
physical body can only be perceived when we reach the next
from the physical body, and that we bring to consciousness
physical body. For this reason spiritual science should
fertilization, this formation also acquires the physical body
in just the same way as we speak here in our physical life of
descending from the spiritual into physical existence. You
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of physically pre-determined tendencies? Particular attention is
physical body remains behind within the earth-forces; the
forces of the physical body, the physical organization. We
course you must not think here of the -physical substances
physical matter, of course, falls away, but these forces are
one can also behold physical things concretely. Spiritual
to say, entirely from the physical aspect: the pangs of
formed in the physical and what is in the ego. This ego, as
your physical and etheric bodies the astral body and I. This
modern physics. This is simply dishonesty, which appears

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of physically pre-determined tendencies? Particular attention is
again into physical existence, we see how what works in out
being therefore arrives at a new physical life, still before
positions the needle of the magnet. The physicist goes beyond
develop our heads more and more. With the physical head they
physician who brought it to me said, “You may meet the
physical body. As soon as the etheric body is loosened, the
physical body here on earth must be developed through

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of his outer, physical sense impressions. What he sees, he
works in quite a special way on the physical body. Thereupon
that is within the physical body of man. In the outer world,
permeated with thought-forces, however, works on the physical
permeated by thinking works destructively upon the physical

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himself as physical being, one has to say, “Within that
for ordinary consciousness; we emerge into it as physical man
through physical conception and physical birth. What is
observable within the physical world can only be contemplated
physical beings from physical stock. When we are born as
little babies, we are actually, for outer, physical
world of God the Son, which basically has its physical source

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exists in the human being today, we distinguish the physical
— physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I
during waking life the physical, etheric,astral bodies, and
physical and etheric bodies on the one hand from the astral
physical body and etheric body, one arrives there by at a
physical and etheric bodies from the time we fall asleep to
the etheric body and physical body with our I and astral
clearly — the space between etheric body and physical
body. Then one slips fully into the etheric-physical on
awaking and receives the outer physical impressions of the
senses. As soon as one has slipped into the physical body,
the outer physical sense impressions are simply there. What
physical body. We must therefore see in it an interplay of
the etheric and physical bodies. If we present this
that if this represents the physical body (orange) and this
physical body and etheric body in the thoughts that we grasp
place between our physical body and etheric body, processes
between our physical and etheric bodies (yellow). We have now
physical body.
body into our physical body. I and astral body within our
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the physical body — he is in the physical body only
objective thought region between the physical body and the
between the physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I.
seek it in beings who do not come to immediate physical
as such have no physical, bodily nature but that live
physical body. We become accustomed to such a thought life.
possessed by physical, earthly things but a life that
us between our etheric and physical bodies, which we can find
conception and birth into this physical world from the
physical body. There a weaving of thought takes place that is
between etheric body and physical body. They are drawn in, as
it were, through the physical body, separated from the outer
the human physical body itself. This longing, however,
unite with the thoughts that are so near to the physical
spiritual-physical cosmos and begins in the Midnight Hour of
what lives on the one hand in the physical and what lives on
becoming. Since we incline downward to our physical existence
physical necessities. We learn then to appreciate all the
between physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I; we
being, as he is today, bears in himself physical body,

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that in the space between the etheric body and the physical
and physical bodies. Man is definitely constituted by
of thought between the etheric body and the physical body
point of view of his physical body, we come in the web of
physical body, we must be clear about the following. In
purely geometrical-mechanical physics and so on, we draw out

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leads us into the spaces, as it were, between physical body,
between physical body and etheric body, the feeling aspect
make man's physical life on earth comprehensible by asking
bringing man back into physical life. This archangelic being
him once more into physical, earthly life, he enters
physical organs, but you will understand me if I present this
to you in images taken from physical existence — I might
physics — we can express these laws by relating
whole placement into physical existence as something external
with the physical sheath; he enters the physical world. On
immersing himself in a new life in physical existence.
physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I in order to
being living both physically and spiritually. For the human

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them as a kind of shell, that is, from the physical body and
rudiments of the physical body were formed as a kind of
as human beings on earth we observe them with our physical
true sense a physicist. He occupied himself with natural
into physical life. One could find confirmation of this
physical body. Man thus now weaves into his system of organs
This is what then wants to descend into physical
incorporation into physical existence now take place? In
I just described (lilac). What is actually physical is then
heights into earthly physical life and incorporates his I and
astral body into his physical body and etheric body, we may
the physical, sense activity into the soul-spiritual world,
whence man again carries it down into his physical, bodily
physical man and am apparently shut off from the rest of the
it by the earthly, physical existence. When I am incorporated

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between the I, astral body, etheric body, and physical
we fmd when focusing our attention on man's physical body,
This physical body is borne by the human being from birth, or
death this physical body cannot preserve its form. It has the
forces working outside in earthly, physical nature destroy
it. This physical body disintegrates because it cannot exist
and animal realms. This physical body, therefore, is actually
feeling, and willing This physical body has no capacity for
existence when entirely abandoned to physical existence on
physical body cannot be said to belong to the earth at all.
Only during the human physical, earthly life is this physical
physical body carried on; only then does this physical body
Now, the moment we approach this physical world with the
physical body has no existence on the earth; but neither does
inner picture-nature of this physical body. What we behold
forces to which the substances of the physical body are
physical human body something will then be formed that we may
human physical body. The human physical body today is the
form of the etheric body. Whereas in our physical body we
assuring us that in the physical body there lies the seed of
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occurs between man's etheric body and physical body, how
bear with us in life: in our physical body, which we lay
if one looks between man's members, the physical body,
the human being that exist now, as seed: the physical body,

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content of our thoughts, occurs between the physical body and
way: physical body (see diagram, blue),
physical body and the etheric body. From my descriptions in
realize clearly that it is entirely dependent on our physical
put forward our physical body to meet the outer world. This
physical body upon passage through the portal of death, as we
through the portal of death. His physical body he lays down.
impressions are only appearance, for the physical body is
between the physical body and the etheric body. This at first
as he does his physical body. The person may know a great
our physics offers a “theory of light”; then we
open our physics books nowadays and there we see light being
Spiritually seen, without the physical body — again,
human being here assimilates physical matter when he enters
weight (a polar opposite, naturally, of any physical weight).

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to be a physical formation. Out of it evolved — that is
physics, people thought that earthly existence disintegrates
spiritual element within the physical at the beginning and
not the sun as we see it today. Today there are physicists
physicists would be astonished if they could build a cosmic
— it shines physically outside and spiritually in

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attempts are made to depict what comes to pass in the physical world of
be observed in the cosmic ether. In comparison with our physical
physical organs, but this other kind of therapy works effectively and
their physical reflection in the Moon and its light: the spiritual

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development of the physical body, exposes the whole of mankind to the
the human physical body. When the modern man is thinking, he has only
the physical body to help him. In earlier periods of earth-existence,
bound to the physical body. Not that the thoughts themselves arise out
of his the physical body — that, of course, is not the case. But
mirrored pictures. The physical body acts as the mirror and the human
knows what the physical body mirrors back to him of these thoughts. If
their roots in the spiritual world and are mirrored by the physical
in a distant future, the physical substance of the earth disperses into
Occult Science, when the physical substance of the
meaning of this passage, namely, that what surrounds us physically,
that can be seen with physical eyes are present only as indication.

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being after the spirit-and-soul had departed from his physical form.
recourse only to the intellect that is bound up with the physical

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what happens in the human physical body — so would the Initiate
physical body. And how did they acquire it?
with the human physical organisation. The inner, plastic force of the
resembles the physical organism. This was taught as an apotheosis of
physical organism this momentary birth of the ether-mummy and its
with the eye of spirit he would have seen not the physical substance
devices, man comes into contact with the physical nature-forces of the
the earth will no longer exist. Everything that is around our physical
physical bodies of men move over the earth ... All this will pass away.
and your physical body digest. All that is earthly bears within it the
the human physical body. But I have emphasised over and over again that

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worlds of soul-and-spirit into physical existence on the earth. In
being, merely from the aspect of mineral, physical, chemical forces,
formations. This cannot be pictured in the physical sense; something
embrace both the astronomical and the physical aspects, Goethe achieved
the ancient Egyptians when corpses of the physical human being lay
this today, as a means of perfecting the physical body, but in a form

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With his physical body, man lives in contact with the outer world of
picture of Man in his physical form as a being to whom the earth is not
in heights of the Spirits, not at the physical grave.

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The Spirit-Seed of Man's Physical Organism.
and a new birth, and in the physical world between birth and
physical life on Earth.
When we are living here on Earth in our physical body, the
that the lung or heart belong to our inner physical nature.
future physical body on Earth is to spring into existence.
bearing within it the forces which then build up the physical
in comparison, the spirit-seed of the human physical body is,
physical organism to a definite stage of development; now it
falls away from us and descends into the physical forces of the
spiritual world when the nexus of forces of our physical
the Earth and unite with what the physical body — the
wonder-structure of the human physical organism. Nevertheless,
spirit-seed of his physical body built up by man in the
which afterwards unites with the physical seed — or
rather, which becomes the physical seed of the human
within the sphere of his physical existence on Earth. When I
everything physical on the Earth has weight. But we
physically, as through the pull of gravity, but spiritually, or
spiritual world to physical orientation within the sphere of
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just as through his physical life on Earth he partakes in
the forces that lie in his physical body and in his etheric or
the physical body and the etheric body lie there in a state of
were, into the etheric body and the physical body, thinking,
when we consider his physical body we shall have to say: All
Earth-existence are active in this physical body. This physical
man's physical body in the process of nutrition. In his
physical body we should also find what is achieved through the
the physical, it is by no means so easy to understand how this
say: Within the physical body of man while he is asleep,
(during sleep) outside the physical and etheric bodies, namely,
the idea that this has anything to do with the physical Earth,
and above the physical and etheric forces and activities.
Physical knowledge tells us that this unfolding of the
of sunlight. Physical knowledge, therefore, shows us what comes
about in the realm of physical effects; but it does not show us
reality, just as in the physical human organism there is for
express themselves in the physical organism as vascular action
and so forth, and just as this physical organism is permeated
as physical processes, are everywhere permeated by workings of
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the food has been taken, inner physical and etheric activity
physical and etheric organism of man is permeated by his
astral ‘being’ take command of what goes on in the physical and
physical and etheric bodies of man are worked upon by forces
in his physical and etheric bodies during sleep.
the physical and etheric bodies during sleep and are not
Moon and Stars are the physical mirror-images — namely,
physical and etheric bodies, are subject to the physical
reflections, the cosmic-physical mirror-images of these higher
Beings and their physical reflections, the Stars, which can be
in the physical world as Moon. It is of course more or less a
that is the outer physical image of everything that
one who is able to see behind the scenes of physical existence
the etheric forces into his physical body and into his own
the physical reflection of those beings who bring man into the
physical world. Saturn is the physical reflection of those
beings who bear him again out of the physical world. The Moon
physical body conceals from him the fact that a fierce battle
spiritual reality behind the physical, than we are justified in
‘simple man of Nazareth,’ to Jesus as the physical personality.
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the life he has here, when in the physical body, in communion
plant or the animal kingdom, or indeed the physical human
activity. We have heard how the spirit-seed of the physical
While we are asleep here on Earth, our physical and etheric
the physical and the etheric bodies and are then in a position
to impress into the physical and etheric bodies too, what we
experienced in sleep; we should want to make our physical and
and my astral body during sleep into the physical and etheric
the physical body something that is like dressing it in
shaping of our next physical body. If this were left to
ourselves alone, we should not shape the physical body in
and intense that out of the forces they contain the physical
physical existence.
of in the physical world, so that instead of physical things we
and old age with youth. It is only for external physical vision
little as in physical life the eyes need think, as little does

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what is formed through physical reality can never be called the
is also true that reality is necessary in this physical-earthly
physical perception. The fact is that we are surrounded
man's physical warmth, which as you know is greater than the

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— that between birth and death man bears in his physical,
physical substances alone are believed to affect each other,
into the element that leads beyond what is physically
perceptible. The physically perceptible exists in its crudest
divine-spiritual world into the physical world of the Earth.

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physical world. True self-knowledge must, as you know, proceed
our astral body and ego leave our physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric bodies, and the astral body between going
longer with the physical and etheric bodies of man himself.
physical apparatus. The processes in the eye and the processes
in a physical apparatus can be characterized in a remarkably
come back again into the physical and etheric bodies.
process of the return of the astral body into the physical and
into the physical and etheric bodies but these bodies are not
so-called physical body and the somewhat nebulous etheric body
physical body reveals itself as something quite different from
This descent of the astral body into the physical and etheric
into the physical and etheric bodies by way of the whole
physical and etheric bodies and seizes hold of the breathing
moving breath, the astral body enters into the physical and
enters into the physical body, and then we learn to know
physical world in the preceding waking period. Let us take a
the laws of the physical world — I do not now mean the
the physical and etheric bodies, in our ego and our astral
our astral body and ego we are outside the physical and etheric
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whence the human being descends into his physical body on the
hidden behind the physical world. Thus the spiritual world was

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of the physical body of man.
teachers pointed to the physical productiveness of the Earth,
physical body takes shape and is formed.
spoken of the secrets of the human physical body, open
to physical existence on the Earth; how he had gathered
bound up with the happenings of the physical and etheric
observation, running parallel with the outer physical world,
from physical light into physical darkness.
Midsummer, he beholds the Sun with his physical senses when he
Springtime of the world, which reveals outer physical nature in

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inasmuch as his physical and also his etheric organisms are
knowledge of the physical world out of single observations and
experiments conducted in chemical and physical laboratories, in
understanding either of the physical world or of the world of
as long as chemistry, astro-chemistry, physics, astro-physics,
physical and biological processes belonging to man's
physical and chemical processes of every possible different
relationship he adopts to descriptions of chemical and physical
state the physical, etheric and astral bodies and the
sleeping state the physical and etheric bodies remain behind in
are outside the physical and etheric bodies.
the physical and etheric bodies of man during sleep and during
astral body are outside the physical and etheric organism
only. And the reason why the physical and etheric organisms of
of the Ego and astral body were too long delayed, the physical
with one variation, what goes on during sleep in the physical
Nature. His physical eyes can survey it. He beholds its
is revealed to him when physical man is asleep. In sleep,
Spring and Summer are there for the physical and etheric bodies
the physical and etheric bodies withdraws and for the eye of
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chemical as Chemistry is today, physical as Physics is today,

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is with man. When he is asleep, his physical and etheric bodies
sprouting Summer condition of man's physical and etheric bodies
successive Spring and Summer condition in the physical and
physical and etheric bodies are in a kind of Autumn and Winter
Therefore even in man's outer physical organism we find an
Science, we find it to be penetrated as to the physical and
picture man asleep. His physical and etheric bodies lie in the
and astral body like a flame, unable to approach the physical
astral body and the Ego which are now living in the physical
are separated from the physical and etheric bodies?
of the summer-like, sleeping physical body, and also in its
birth, whose pulsations beat upon our physical and etheric
of the Ego and astral body are united with the physical and
that as our sleeping physical and etheric bodies point to our
exclusive of the animal element and physical man, we must
only with our sleeping physical and etheric organism. When we
consider external physical activities, we must admit that all
of them depend upon the physical activities in mineral and
But all external Nature depends, so far as its physical and
we find in our sleeping physical and etheric organism. Now in
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embraced the physical body as well. In what light does one familiar
manner by a number of the elect penetrated even into the physical
the genuine initiates, by being made independent of the physical
by that inner experience which can appear at physical death if the
human soul knows that man passes physically through the portal of

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time man descends to his physical existence from the spiritual world,
in man as to lift him out of his physical limitations, to give him a
to speak, into physical existence through his birth — revered
him there, and from which he severs himself, as physical man,
Sun forces? Only their external physical effect. He knows that they
emotions — in fact, according to his whole physico-etheric
Physical birth — Moon-birth
Third birth (physical death) — Saturn-birth
form I then descended into the physical body, received from my
mother, from my parents. I was then — not clothed in a physical
physical body.
and the soul pervade the physical body — the nervous-sensory
physical surroundings with their eyes. But when soul and spirit have
so far permeated a man's physical body that he considers himself a
physically permeated by the psycho-spiritual forces that constitute
die we discard the physical body and are no longer bound to it. It
who is still bound to the physical body, as was the case in the
physical body; and these forces at the same time provided higher
the spiritual world, just as man is placed by his physical body into
the physical world.
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physical body. Now, it is a concomitant of the materialistic
psycho-spiritual element pervades the physical organism and
related to this spiritual multiplicity in the stars as is physical
perceptible in its physical surfaces as, say, the full Moon —
that is, something that presents a physical aspect — this
physical expression on account of correlated cosmic conditions;
physical phenomenon, it has no effect. When our knowledge of
appearing as full Moon in physical light. So the Moon is present
— now wholly physical, now wholly spiritual, and we have the
rhythmic alternation of its physical and spiritual expression.
descend to Earth, to unite with the bodily-physical principle
possible for his ego and astral body to unite with the physical body
goes back to the fact that the Moon is truly not the mere physical
withdrew from the Earth, it was not merely physical matter that
primordial teachers, who lived on the Earth not in physical
therefore to distinguish between the physico-etheric and the
listening outward with eyes and ears in the physical vicinity
of the Earth. It was possible to become free of the physical body, to
his physical body, that his soul and spirit had passed into the
physical dying of man; but while in Nature only the perishable is
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being. The premonition of the physical body, which he acquired only
occurs in the physical environment of the Earth. When the neophyte of
in a physical garb; and then further enable this physically garbed
physical plane — on the paper? Nothing but combinations of a b c,
letters. For all the secrets of the physical and the spiritual world
anthroposophical movement through the astral light in the physical

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independent of the physical body and experiencing death in
physical symbol, referring to a process experienced in
ancient, physical idol to be replaced with the inner
these in the physical, soul, and divine-spiritual worlds.

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birth into a physical existence, were revered by ancient
physical being is severed from these forces only when we pass
of history of which no physical documents survive, one
physical effects. They know, for example, that because of
whole physical and etheric nature, the spiritual sun forces
Physical
Third birth — physical death — Saturn
and spirit, which then entered a physical body provided by a
permeated itself with a physical body.
pervade the physical body — the nervous-sensory
physical world around us. When spirit and soul have completed
their permeation of our physical bodies at adulthood, we can
the part of himself physically permeated by the soul-spiritual
When we die, we discard our physical bodies and are no longer
physical bodies, as was the case in the initiations of old, we
could remain free from the physical body.
relation with the spiritual world, just as our physical bodies
bring us into relation with the physical world. At this point a
physical body had to cease during moments of knowledge. He had
physical body is concerned, belongs to the earth, but that the
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connected with the cosmos, just as through our physical
are related to our physical nature. The secret of the moon
something as physically conspicuous as the full moon,
something that presents us with a physical aspect, we are
cannot manifest itself in a visible, physical way due to the
spiritual manner than when it appears in the physical light as
completely physical way, at another in a completely
earth, to unite himself with a physical body provided by an
can unite themselves with a physical body, he must clothe
from the earth not only did physical matter stream out into
earth in spiritual rather than physical form and who were
therefore distinguish between the moon's physical-etheric
senses, to free or distance themselves from their physical
conscious of taking leave for a while of their physical bodies
physical being. However, even as we look at nature,
Spirit works in from the cosmos, causing physical life to
human beings were reminded of their descent into the physical,

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felt a premonition of his earthly physical body. These
cosmos, just as what happens in the earth's physical
to clothe ourselves in a physical body, so that we might live
on Earth as physical beings who carry the god within us:
the same way that the human soul pervades the physical body.
your life, you read it. Physically speaking, what precisely did
all the secrets of the physical and spiritual worlds are

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was consummated by Christ Jesus down to the physical body
become free from their physical bodies and had experienced
destiny of these in the physical, psychic, and spiritual

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psycho-spiritual being, into physical life, he was filled with
bringing man into physical existence at birth. The ancient
as physical man when he passed through the gates of death.
the Sun-forces? Only the outer physical part. Man knows that
his emotions and the nature of his physical-etheric body
Soul-Spirit then entered a physical body, which it had received
then, not clothed itself with the physical body — that
itself with this physical body
physical, permeates the nerves and sense-system, permeates the
able to perceive the physical world by means of their senses.
where he has permeated his physical body so profoundly with his
temple. This was that physical part of him which was permeated
When man really dies he lays aside his physical body. He is no
to his physical body, as was the case in olden times at
as the physical body places him as man in the physical world.
desire according to the physical body must cease, that as
regards his physical body he belonged to the earth, but that
physical body, not with its construction. If the man of those
physical perception has been overcome, when geometry has
resurrection of his soul and spirit-nature out of the physical
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is dependent on the earth as regards his physical body.
if one were to study the human physical organism, completely
anything so apparently physical on the surface, as the full
moon is, that what it here presents to us in its physical
aspect is something entirely different, in that physical
directly and physically), and we must not think when the moon
spiritual way than when we see its physical light at the time
of Full Moon. So the moon is present at one time physically and
rhythmic alteration between a physical manifestation and a
earth, to the union of himself with what in a physical,
he can find the means for union with the physical body; he must
depends also on this: that the moon is not the mere physical
separated at one time from the earth. It was not only physical
kind of physical body but in a spiritual form, how they were
its physical-etheric and its psychic-spiritual nature, only
assumed by thine etheric body at its descent into thy physical
from the physical body and
Such a man knew that he had left his physical body for a time,
resembles the death of the physical side of man. But while man,
spirit works down again out of the cosmos; that physical life
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physical body as it was first on earth in the consonants which
his physical surroundings on the earth. The pupil of the
clothing him with his physical body and enabling this
physically clothed being, who bears God within him, to carry on
to you on this occasion on the physical plane? What was on the
at by means of letters. For all the secrets of the physical and
the co-operation of physical fire streamed out into space as

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now to be learnt about the physical world — and this
physical plane alone, and became increasingly important, man
with physical eyes that which originates in the spiritual
demonstrated on the physical plane. Mediumship was a means of
know, consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body
have been suppressed and as a result the physical and etheric

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existence among physical men. According to this account,

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her! With a trained physicist — and I am not speaking
matters with physicists — with a trained physicist one
external physics. He could never have hit upon atomism! He
reached by shrewder physicists in the eighties of last
Thoughtful physicists would prefer to keep to what they
rudiments of the physical body were imparted to man on Old
into his organism, into what existed of his physical organism
Imagination. It did not become physical, or better said,
nerves. It is not as though the physical body were filled
physical body, right to the ends of the nerve-fibres. As long
of the physical body. The life of the human being between
experienced outside the physical body; therefore mediums

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and forces which take effect outwardly on the physical plane
physical plane. Theories such as those of which we are
grasping the ordinary truths of the physical plane. But
physical plane is entirely impregnated with the mineral
hence he cannot be seen with physical eyes but only with
physical man, is contained within them, but can be perceived
animals, rivers, mountains, is visible to physical eyes.
organised for perception with physical senses, you will
the Earth. Therefore what can be seen today as physical Moon
celestial body that is not visible with physical eyes, that
only of the physical, materialised Moon. Hence when Sinnett

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statement is that the physical Moon is directly connected
that this pointed to something material and physical.
physically speaking, spatially speaking, from the same place.
example to express what is here meant. Just as the physical
look for the Spiritual within what is actually physical in
developed, just as his physical senses enable him to perceive
environment; what is perceived through the physical senses
Physical substance there is more spiritualised than anywhere
Sphere belongs to our physical Earth in the sense indicated.
Sinnett as substance of a far denser physical-mineral
the Moon given by physicists tally with this. Everything that
order that there should be enough physical matter incapable
far physically denser, than exists anywhere on the Earth.
even in the physical domain has ensured that not all
to the external, physical-mineral domain. But in the human
in the physical nature of man.
with thought, that is connected intrinsically with physical
impregnates man with the physical-mineral element.
established in men the principle of physical heredity! He is
physical world a willingness to allow the free will to be

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on the physical plane we are in many respects protected from
it was shown how man on the physical
the soul, as living soul, away from physical death. That is
the physically perceptible world, to the senses by means of
times men did not perceive, did not think with the physical
disappeared and the feeling that he has only a physical body
this opinion about man having a physical body only, is very
physical body was actually brought about by the full flood of
he is not speaking of the physical blood but of what
University of Leipzig and Physician at the Hospital of St.
in the true facts being violated. The Moon, which as physical

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birth. But whereas on the physical plane, false results of
investigation can be rectified by testing them with physical
physical plane can be refuted; one sits down at the
from the physical body, the human being passes into the
discovery is then made. — Here, in physical life
into the physical world are working there; we discover that
same kind as those which, on the physical plane, promote the
being is in the physical world he must unfold certain
physical forces in order that the teeth may develop out of
earthly world; if he is living in the physical world these
forces build up the teeth which he then uses in the physical
soon as may be into the physical world. These are connections
Threshold works on in the physical world in individual,
physical world truly until we realise that forces are

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only in the physical world. As soon as we cross the Threshold

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external phenomena of the physical world, materialism is
physical-mineral body. Intelligence and free will must be
method for investigating the physical, material world. It is
to theoretical speculation within the perimeter of physical
the basic law of the material-physical world that can be so
duality lies at the basis of the physical-material world, it
in the physical world (blue). Thus the red and the

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the physical plane, is as described above.
anchored in the physical world and begins to yield himself to
in the way that is right and proper for the physical plane. If
consciousness should be on the physical plane. But we are now
and figures there which look like those of the physical
physical things. They want to see a spirit, but this spirit
poodle, as these are seen in the physical world. In the other
those of the physical world, merely giving a different,
subtler version of things of the physical world. These people
consciousness which belongs to the physical world only.
which is in truth suitable only for the physical world, we
destruction of the physical organism is their regular
proper for man's physical life on Earth. Christ-Jesus
bring about death in the physical world. All destruction in
the physical world is allotted to him. But the connection

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physical plane is always upwards, towards the spiritual world.
empire on the physical plane. One could say from Rome the law
Christ Jesus on earth, which would be on the physical
the reality of that present day world, if the physically sensed
time had to appear on the physical plane in sighs, as a
on the physical plane would observe things in the sense
south to establish the kingdom of Christ on the physical plane
is inherent in the physical body, then you arrive at an
again to be manifested on the physical plane. The moods of the
Causarum Cognitio when the experience of the physical causal

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physical space behind the Russian Madonna image. You can

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physical plane as was the case in the 4th
depiction of the physical world was granted through beautiful
struggled with what couldn't be captured in the physical world
we have physical forms: Moses, Peter, the Lord Himself, Lazarus
despite the naturalistic drawing: the stone as such — physical;
natural events. Everywhere one looks at the physical
soul expression permeating physical existence. For this reason

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bodily depictions, the artistic physical forms, one has to
within the physical itself.
thoughts to the physical nature of a person in the majority of
saw only the physical expressed in the human form. Pay
attention — he looked at the physical nature of mankind as if
are within these physical forms are not individual human souls
world souls in a human physical form. One could say that what
physical body and that the sleeping body is ensouled by
attempted in the physical human form. It is extremely important
never stated on the physical plane yet it is answered in the

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the physical world, that our consciousness first awakes in the
us to establish our bearings in the physical world, and also
of the physical body, something else comes into consideration
established with the physical body. I said in the lecture this
morning that if a man comes down into his physical body imbued
then lay hold of his physical body in a wrong way. Man lays
Eastern sages that when they were outside the physical body
physical nature were used in such circumstances. And when you
connection of the spirit-and-soul with the physical body
be loosened from the physical body in a certain way and it
has again to unite consciously with the physical organism.
physical body and that too firm a connection is made between
the spirit-and-soul and the physical body.
the spirit-and-soul is too strongly linked with the physical

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beyond the veil of sense for metaphysical explanations in terms
speak, in the physical body, awakening the erotic impulse
physical make-up, we begin to see how these processes work in a
merely physical sense. Through our sensory impressions we are
imagined by modern physics and physiology. Spiritual forces are
at work in the physical world; forces which between birth and
abstract metaphysics, that brings the spiritual to our notice,
physical — will soon discover how those forces that form
we could never in this physical life grow into social beings.
be found when we experience air as a purely physical substance,
in his soul and spirit as he has physically in breathing in and
out. Breathing in and out are physical experiences. When they are
place of the physical breathing of yoga, when he develops
physical breathing, we in the West say: development of

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turn connected with Spiritual Beings. And just as the physical forces
it was to these Spiritual Beings, not to the physical stars, that men
into the physical body. Man descends as a soul from the heavens by
physical, material constitution of man comes from the Earth; but the
composed of physical body, ether-body, astral body, and the
which man is subject as a physical being. For the Church can only

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of the physical human being when he comes into the world, is
that when the human being dies, the physical body is laid aside.
life. His physical body has been laid aside but his ether-body is
the earth loses her fertility and looks just as the physical human
away from the physical world and their hearts and minds were drawn to
the Sun you see a whitish-yellowish orb or body — it is the physical
man dies, he lays aside his physical body and looks back upon his
transformed, in the physical sense too, into the Body and Blood of
commemorates the departure of the human being from the physical
physical world; then he lays aside his ether-body as a second corpse;

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laughter, or some other physical symptom; an immediate effect was
both spiritual and physical. Every Hebrew word is always full of

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maintains life. As physical men we are entirely dependent on the
Spiritual Science? What remains when one has cut out the physical
it. If one removes the physical spleen, leaving the etheric spleen,
should happen. Whereas the physical spleen is dependent on the earth,
and is no longer hampered by the physical spleen, must come again
concretely into the physical realm, if right methods are
are still more — I have told you: physical man, etheric man,
etc. But even in the physical man we are really two people, a right
depends more on the etheric body. The physical body is heavier and is
physical, on the right, more etheric.
physical on the left and more etheric on the right. But what does
modern science care about physical, etheric? Both are the same to the
as physical man. It is no longer remarked that on the left he has a
physical body on one side and on the other side it develops
according to the earth; physical hands — this gravity draws

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astral body, an etheric body and a physical body. Fat, needless to
say, accumulates and is deposited in the physical body. But the
not enough physical material in his body becomes more and more
physical body originates in the first place from protein. Protein is
connected with the birth and death of the physical human being. The
I feel a blow on my hand, it is not the physical body in which the
feeling arises; if it were, then everything physical would have the
spirit is unable to make any real approach, the Physical grows apace
water is held in check; the spirit is able to work in the physical
the soul-and-spirit was not, in the real sense within the physical
that man consists of physical body, ether body, astral body and
down into the physical body of the child. When the ether body has
penetrated fully into the physical body, the second teeth appear;
when the astral body has penetrated fully into the physical body,
matter itself. Physical science does not really understand matter,
little as they nourish their physical bodies. For other purposes it
lives in the physical world without being rightly adjusted to the

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physical body that is visible to the eye, but also of higher members
visible physical body and of three higher members: ether body, astral
due. Syphilis is due to the fact that the physical body has become
activity of the physical body is reduced by the administration of a
so, when there is mineral poisoning, the physical body is cured by
In cases of mineral poisoning the physical body
Therefore we can say: mineral poisons cause the physical body to be
immediately the whole physical body is driven into the ether
body. The physical body is a dead body, the ether body is a body
of life. But the ether body is killed by the physical
the physical body proceeds to make too much headway into the ether
the physical body to trespass into the ether body. If I now give the
water, lukewarm milk and the like — the physical body is driven
only take hold of the physical body; plant poisons, because they
into the body. Whereas mineral poisons drive the physical body at
stomach — they are still physical, just as they were in the world
not entirely physical; they go more deeply into the body. All
effects. Now when food is in the stomach, the physical body
that the physical body trespasses into the ether body. Plant poisons
poison. A corpse yields this particular virus and the physical body
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first a physical illness which turned him altogether away from

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certain sense, behind what is directly, physically

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the second pole of that entry into the physical reality in the artistic
the existing physical snake — should have been the Tempter, is

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of the physical plane. As we follow the evolution of this Art, the sacred
expression in actual physical relationships — in the constellations
spoke of the significance of the physical constellations. But not only
approaching Christ from the physical plane — all that is connected,

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in the Physical. Thus even if we take the pure picture of Nature —
stands unfinished when he leaves this physical plane. In cyclic periods
there when the etheric is freed from the physical. The union of the soul
emancipated from the Physical. We find this threefoldness in manifold
physical plane into which men had to enter during the fifth post-Atlantean
age. To a high degree, man was about to be fettered to that physical
come out most of all on to the physical plane of existence.
deeply on the penetration of the Spiritual world into the physical.
were entering most terribly into the physical world just at that time.

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of the Physical. He felt how the Etheric is manifested or portrayed
in the forms of the Physical Body, while in the movements of the latter
he imparted to the physical material, he strove to create, as it were,
the Greeks evolved the power to express in the outer physical form the
represent not the dead human being — the mere physical body —
physical, and the physical falling asunder, is the characteristic thing

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contemplation, we advance from seeing what is physical in the bird to
upon him there. The sun does not only possess the physical forces of
When we ascend from the physical level to the astral level, we must
make this paradoxical statement: on the physical plane the same forces
of feathers; that is the physical aspect of the formation of thoughts.
astral and the other physical, these things do actually correspond in
Of course, to whatever height one might raise the cow, physically she
would never be a bird. But if one could pass over what is physical in
the bird has become physical in the cow. The appearance is of course
transformation into the etheric and physical, the eagle would become a
the bird the digestive process is something almost entirely physical.
one-sided way, the physical embodiment of a certain astrality, we find
The moth casts itself into the flame and finds its death in physical
quickly in the physical fire. The caterpillar, sacrificing itself,
the cocoon. The Sun, which previously exerted its physical power,
the physical body, though certainly in a spiritual way, a kind of
physical aspect resembles the caterpillar-formation. In the astral

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she forms in solid physical substance an image of something
actually real?) This important physicist says: What can be measured is
past millennia of the earth; with his physical nature he has not
counting; to understand not merely what lies in the physical
physical gaze upwards with his spiritual gaze downwards, when he shall
direct his physical gaze downwards with his spiritual gaze upwards,
when he shall direct his physical gaze outwards towards the east with
spiritual gaze and physical gaze to interpenetrate each other, then he

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physical life we live upon the earth; we are surrounded by those
events and facts which are there because of the physical matter of the
human form itself. The essential element in all this is the physical
speak about its opposite — let us call this matter the physical
physical substance, namely spiritual substance. This last is the basis
universe which, as spiritual formations, are connected with physical
It is not right to speak only of physical matter or physical
physical substance, in what in their case we would call their bodily
is earthly, we become aware of physical substance; when we can look
speak of that earth-being, who belongs both to the physical and the
possessed physical substance. This, however, is not the case. Man
bears both spiritual and physical substance in himself in so
it is incorrect to speak primarily of physical substance. You will
man formed of physical substance. Basically the head is formed out of
physical substance; but of the legs — grotesque though this may
substance to pass over into physical substance; in the human head
where in particular physical substance is contained. Spiritual
arm and leg it is really as though the physical substance were only
compact formation composed of physical substance. In a form such as
distinguish between spiritual forces and earthly, physical forces.
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physical connection, have remained behind from the Moon. The Earth
— as present-day physicists somewhat crudely state — as

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physical. Moreover in man's lower nature spiritual substance is
permeated with the activity of physical forces, with the action of
have spiritualized physical matter, and in the metabolic-limb-system
They are there, just as the effects of physical activities are there,
whereas what is taught by the modern chemist and physicist will reach
living beings. People look at a star, and with the modern physicist
physical substance, which it spiritualizes, is, before this
something which cannot be judged in a physical way. If we do so, it is
of a butterfly solely according to physical, mechanical laws, neither
physical reality.
into the physical substance of the earth. It thrusts it back into the
air. And just as one sees with the physical eye physical bats
not enter into the physical or etheric body, but it enters into the
domain where all physical existence is regarded as interwoven with

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physical forms of the butterflies and the birds are really the
physical metamorphoses of spiritual beings. It is not the spiritual
into the cosmos — borrowing a term customary in solar physics
spiritual world to the physical world, it is the butterfly corona,
encircling air. In what lives and weaves in physical reality one must
physical nature, the fish feels the water as something foreign to it.
an etheric creature. It feels itself as the physical vessel for the
just as physical man must perish, without any continuation. So far,

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life and animal life can be studied in the sphere of the physical. We
outer physical formation in the leaves. But in all that is now active
of physical substance disintegrates, then these plant-forms begin to
spiritualize the physical matter which unites itself with them, and to
allow the spiritualized physical substance to ray out into cosmic
human being to descend again into physical incarnation, it is the fire
only the physical plant is seen, but also that wonderful working of
physical senses. This enables us to correct the capital error of

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soul-spiritual being without the help of his physical and etheric
physical body when making use of his spirit. The physical body, which
the physical world. It is the same with the etheric body, which man
To this world the etheric and physical bodies have no access. We gain
complement to the physical sense-world is supplied by the undines, the
in a spiritual way, what the cow represents below in physical matter.
butterfly itself develops as little as possible of its actual physical
impression. If, on the one hand, we had a physical butterfly before
here he makes use of his physical body in quite a robust way. This,
appears physically in human beings. Certainly, these things are
manifested physically in human beings as well as in animals. Through
physically above. What occurs in the lower man is a process which is
arrested halfway in regard to its physical development. Excretion
there assumes physical form. Above we have the physical brain, below a
other world unless he has recognized, in physical manifestations the

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super-sensibly present behind what is physical and sense-perceptible,
in a higher sense than do the physical, sense-perceptible beings.
do not possess a physical body such as is possessed by these latter.
At full moon the gnomes are ill at ease. Physical moonlight does not
Here on the physical earth everything desires to live, for all that
entertainment to observe a person who is asleep, not the physical body
in bed, but the person who is outside his physical body in his astral
On the physical plane, you see, it is certainly often unpleasant to
physical existence, wish man to make a move onward with his

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Physical natural laws, etheric natural laws, are the characters of a script which depicts the spiritual world. We only understand these things when we are able to conceive them as written characters from spiritual worlds.
metabolic functions within the physical body, here you have a picture
it disperses through it an out-streaming of ether. Physical science
which, whether concentrated in the physical or concentrated in the
of substance or physical process, then this process or substance
put it “bluntly” because we are dealing with a physical
were, of his physical processes; the healing processes are derived

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processes which are investigated by the physicist, the chemist and so
outside, could only take part in building the human physical form,
becoming earthly, of assuming the physical-material. If we look at the

Title: Man/Symphony: Lecture XII: Convention and Morals, Bones and Hatred
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in the sphere of the physical.
to what the physical-bodily nature of man is: blood, nerves, muscles,
physical-bodily nature of man and perceived it to be the counter-image
spiritual was seen in its living activity, what is physical — the
And so it is with everything that exists as physical natural laws, as
physical organism together. Thus we bear in ourselves the impulse of
certainly pass over into physical coldness, traversing the
unconsciousness. There man detaches his soul-spiritual from his physic
bodily nature. He lays his physical-bodily nature aside. The impulses
because it was always entirely submerged in the physical and etheric
what should be in the physical, of what the physical and etheric
the residue of what really belongs in the physical world. He carries
with what he carries up into the spiritual world from his physical and
judge the relation between this spiritual cold and the physical cold
here below. The physical cold which we find in snow and ice is only
the physical image of that moral-spiritual cold which is there above.
man's form as physical; we must represent it to ourselves as
spiritual. The physical in it is everywhere present as minute
physical and also the etheric would collapse like a heap of sand. That
form, this stems from nothing physical; it stems from the spiritual.
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Title: Lecture: How Can We Gain Knowledge of the Supersensible Worlds?
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physical world which induces people to think, so that they adopt
sleeping human being that can be physically perceived by our
tasks in the external physical world? He is interested in his
training the muscles by physical exercises; they develop by
physical training. In the case of the ordinary forces of the
without having to rely on the physical body; a condition arises
world; the physical world is our teacher. It is not the physical
physical world we learn to rely on a kind of thinking which finds
that their thought has been trained by observing the physical
enter a world which is not the physical world, but with
capacities acquired by living in the physical world which trains
towards this new world as towards the physical world. This
from the objects of the physical world, if they fascinated us to
the physical world. This does not suffice. It should be
from the physical objects in the physical world.
confront the physical world by training thought through the
observation of physical things. This gives us confidence in our
the physical world we must push into the background everything
we should be able to connect physical things with super-sensible
things, because the foundation of the physical world lies in the
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Title: Lecture: Man's Position in the Cosmic Whole, the Platonic World-Year
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something which is connected with his physical, bodily being, he
regard to external physical life: the human beings felt, as it were,
perceived physically.
our life, in so far as we are human beings of the physical cosmos.
important for our life within a physical body; our physical life is,
interrupted, we would not be able to live, physically. A respiration
that we ourselves, as physical beings that pass through the length of
consider, our physical body, we have within this physical body which
physical body, his etheric body, his astral body, his ego —
a physical body, we really mean, when speaking of man's physical
and gaseous. All this constitutes man's physical body. When we speak
compared with a physical body. But its physical body does not contain
alkaline substances, nor any solid parts; the physical body of the
physical body, except that its ingredients are different. Instead of
the physical body (for then, it is not in the same meaning of the
word, a physical body): Air, Warmth, Light and Tone. — This
part which corresponds to the physical body of the Russian Folk-Soul
not only reverberate, I might say, physically, but it
penetrates into the earth; of course, not into the coarse, physical

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already existed in a more elemental, physical form during the

Title: Lecture: Entry of the Michael Forces
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physical inheritance — forces related to physical reproduction.
into the physical bodily nature of man. Michael, on the other hand,
right into the physical organisation. For Michael-men therefore
(if we may use this term), we must connect the physical phenomena of
see behind the scenes of this external, physical world which is
spiritual into the physical world. For you must remember, the entry
of Michael into the physical world was taking place in the last third
influenced by Michael will appear as an immediate, physically
creative, physically formative power.
vengeance in physical illnesses, physical accidents and the like.
enhanced. For Michael works right down into the physical sympathies
are not there to incarnate in physical bodies on the earth.

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physic hotch-potch, interspersed with all sorts of dark feelings, and
man is not a physical being to the horse, but a spiritual being, and
man's task to find the way back again. Physical, etheric and astral
be the greatest mathematician or the greatest metaphysician, but he

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besides what he was as a physician. He was interested to
similar to that of a physical wound upon the body.
physician, thoroughly grounded in science, an excellent pupil
remaining one of the busiest physicians in Vienna, with little
imagine. The physician brought her to this point in the story,
agitated by it. Jung pursues the matter as a physician, and it
matter as a physician, and has observed, treated, and
bring everything into consciousness. Thus the physician must
not only what he goes through after his physical birth, but
you see the physician of the present day is forced to say to
primeval pictures upon the physician involves a danger for the
personality of the physician from these projections, then every
attributes their qualities not to the physician but to
hateful contempt for his physician. In introjection he
what do you do as physicians when you handle hysterical cases?
was fought upon the super-physical plane before 1879; that he

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senses, but also with the whole physical world, and with all
that lives within it. To the physical world belong all the
thinking alone is oriented upon the physical plane;
feeling is no longer confined to the physical plane, but stands
the physical plane in his personal relations with Richard

Title: Reappearance/Christ: Lecture XI: Individual Spirit Beings and the Undivided Foundation of the World: Part 2
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beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
know things only on the physical path something of the spiritual
of this physical path. The intentions were thus good when spiritism
the actions of human beings do here on the physical plane. I
the impulses of the physical plane. This relates also to things that
made as they are determined by the impulses of the physical plane.

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beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
oneself — so long as it is impossible to influence the physical

Title: Influences of Lucifer/Ahriman: Lecture One: The Incarnation of Lucifer in Asia in the Third Millenium B.C.
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heavenly bodies, in studying astrophysics for the sole purpose

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revolutions of the heavenly bodies, in studying astrophysics

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on the path of decline, they are a being growing physically weaker,
fata morgana that arises out of chemistry, out of physics, out of

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decline, he is a being growing physically weaker, and to
arises out of chemistry, out of physics, out of astronomy and

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physical processes. And even if scientists do not expressly say so,
vapors lies in the physical process generated by the lighting of the
paper. In this case, the physical process is that by lighting the
you what may be called the center of gravity of your own physical
being. Science tells us of physical, chemical, and mechanical forces.
arises: What relation is there between the forces of will that areconcentrated in our center of gravity, and the external, physical,
astral body we are outside the physical body. But then we are
bound up with those stars. The effects appear to be physical because
the stars are at a distance. They are not in reality physical at all.
ingenious description of the sun given by astrophysicists. But if it
nothing of what was to be expected from these physical descriptions
perceive its consequences. We are not physical beings only; we are
within me. They live in what I am as a physical being. But as a
physical human being I am fundamentally the cause —
together with all humankind — of every physical happening. The
no mention is made in your books on physics and geology; they contain
structure of the earth. The destiny of our physical earth planet in
beings are outside their physical bodies.
part of the earth, the whole course of physical happenings

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geological, purely physical processes. And even if he does
physical process generated by the lighting of the paper. In
this case, the physical process is that by lighting the paper
own physical structure. When man is awake, this centre of
study of man. Science tells us of physical, chemical and
gravity, and the external, physical and chemical forces?
outside the physical body. But then he is entirely a being of
physical because the stars are at a distance. They are not in
reality physical at all. What you actually see are the inter
the sun given by astrophysicists. But if it were possible to
what was to be expected from these physical descriptions
physical beings only; we are moral — or maybe immoral
causes and effects, physical man too is involved. So it is
within me. They live in what I am as a physical being. But as
a physical human being I am fundamentally the cause —
together with all mankind — of every physical
mention is made in your books on physics and geology; they
and plant structure of the earth. The destiny of our physical
sleep when man is outside his physical body.
whole course of physical happenings would be other than it is

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thrown back more and more upon what is presented to them by physical
danger that must otherwise befall the earth physically, of being
counter with their will, what would otherwise become physical
repetition of the tonic. In the physical world these things are

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presented to them by physical existence. By
physically, of being rigidified into granite-like
become physical reality.
octave which is a repetition of the tonic. In the physical

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physical events of the earth. It will be necessary to prepare
spiritual powers here in the physical world. We try to penetrate as it
were, through the veil of the physical world to that which is active
in the spiritual world. What exists in the physical world may be
solve the riddles posed by the physical world. But we must sense the
riddles of physical life in the right way. It is important, in
the human, and although they are invisible to physical human senses,

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture II: The Michael revelation.
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completely different physical conditions, had an animal form. Animals

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We speak lightly of the fact that we, as physical human beings, live
the character of substance. What I have stated above from the physical
intermediary. This, again, is spoken of from the physical aspect.
to illness and death in the physical; in the soul sphere it develops
Physical Earth evolution has entered the descending path at a
evolution began to descend in a physical respect. This is a fact which
find that physical science has come to the conclusion that the earth
you do not confront it at all with your physical capacity of
see with your physical eyes. That which man unites with himself of
are invisible to physical senses. A certain number of shapes are
— who is invisible — here in the physical world through the
physical passes over into the spiritual evolution. For as soon as the
physical begins to become retrogressive, there is room for spiritual
because physical development is on the retrogressive path. Only when
from the physical aspect it can be said today that man does not bear
in his being the signature of mineral nature, of external physical
You know from your lessons in physics that Archimedes, sitting in his
through its swimming in the cerebral fluid do we live physically. We
today even from the physical aspect.
us physically is the real human being, only if we feel this to be an
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Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture IV: The Culture of the Mysteries and the Michael Impulse.
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Let us assume the human being enters physical existence through birth.
physical being you now receive something from this world which does

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture V: The Michael Deed and the Michael Influence as Counter-pole of the Ahrimanic Influence
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the Haeckeleans, Darwinists, physicists with their natural order are
but merely the human physical self.

Title: Lecture: Mission of Michael: Lecture VI: The Ancient Yoga Culture and the New Yoga Will.
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to be included for him in one spiritual — physical unity. If I
purely physical aspect, the human ether body is essentially engaged in
of the soul before it had descended into the physical body through
consciousness, physics and people in general speak. We must become

Title: Social Forms: Lecture I: The Waldorf School, Spiritual Science, Outer World, Inner World
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in man's whole physical, soul and spiritual being. To think
physical world through conception or birth. This spirit is
excludes the individual physical experiences; if it goes on
experience as the ethical sphere here on the physical plane
physical world, however, is always the replica, the
intense form in the spiritual world. Here is the physical
the actual reality of these physical things be found (red).

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here on the physical plane actually represent. Since life
has its image here in the physical world, just as natural
acknowledged as such in regard to physical man. I already
yesterday that when ascending from the physical plane into
abstract programs can only exist in the physical world and
be subject to the physical realm is something that people do
What is merely an image in the physical world corresponds to
the nature of their activities here on the physical plane is
you will find that one cannot remain on the physical plane if one
a soul-spiritual part (blue) and a physical part (red), as
the so-called human soul is merely the result of the physical
merely consist of a physical body with a nervous system and
physical world is a replica of the world of soul and spirit,
wall. The physical world in all its activities and
physical realm. The configuration of forces that he brings
physical body which is taken over from the hereditary stream.
physical thoughts, thoughts about the physical realm. One can
physical brain, to set the brain on an automatic course, just
physical thinking. They sank deeper and deeper into the
America had turned into physical thinkers.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture III: Man's Twelve Senses in Relation to Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
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organs that are as much of a physical nature as are those
physical body with his soul-spiritual part. Then the higher
world, seeing with our soul eyes, yet leaving the physical
the physical body through the organ of taste.
the physical body through the sense of warmth, one also
is just as real in the physical organization as is the sense
of hearing. When the soul and spirit leave the physical body
conceptions about the physical world formed by people from
a mere duplication of the physical world. Such duplications
an the physical plane. One frequently notes that they expect
describing specters of this physical world. Instead, we have
the opposite of the physical world here; above all, it is the
the physical, the condition of having already become rigid in
the physical as opposed to the real world? Of what
is in fact a product of the material, physical world, for it
world. They regard everything existing here on the physical

Title: Social Forms: Lecture IV: World Events, Initiation Knowledge and the Impulse toward Freedom
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physical, corporeal organization of which he consists in the
to any extent at all, have some idea of man's physical,
kingdoms, also constitutes us human beings in the physical,
the crown of creation. In the physical, bodily sense we are a
soul-spiritual human being, and on the other to the physical,
to come to the realization: This physical, bodily
constitutes the human physical organization and its
upon today as science encompasses neither man's physical body
physical corporeal nature of man. You can discover the
physical bodily nature. We cannot look into it, for if we
our physical bodily organization is concealed from us. Just
the way the physical body of the human being is
physical body. Thereby, however, we are exposed to two great
the physical man, the etheric and astral being — each
one more tenuous than the last. Physical man is dense, the
society and adheres to the viewpoint: This is the physical

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physical body. You also see how the entity that descended
physical world. In an entirely different way you then see
element of the child's head works on the physical head. What
merely to a physical world. The existence in the present of
across the threshold from the physical world in the spiritual

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VI: New Social Forms, Soul, Material World
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for atoms and molecules, in short, for any world of physical
illusion that they can find physical, material realities, not
wakes up he is outside his physical and etheric bodies with
world described by the physicists, it makes no sense whatever
outside the physical body. If we know, however, that beyond
basis of the physical world. Of course, upon awakening, his
incarnating into our physical body. We come from the
birth; through birth or conception we enter this physical
consists of a physical body, a somewhat less dense etheric
which present-day physics wishes to construct a world for us.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VII: Trends of Souls in People of the East, West, and Middle of Europe
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we bear as our physical organism is something that does not

Title: Social Forms: Lecture VIII: East, Middle, West
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physical body here, is a principal aspect of these Oriental
materialistic, physical world-view finds nitrogen and oxygen
spiritual worlds into this physical body. Knowledge of
anchored here in Europe in physical life. Only the shadowy
will see in the human being, dwelling here in this physical

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what is outwardly, physically dead must also come to life.
physically speaking, the Luciferic force is that element in
an interpreter of spirituality, but only of the physical,
certain inherent force in Hegelianism, truly not a physical

Title: Social Forms: Lecture X: The Tapestry of the Senses, Memory, and the Spiritual World, -or- Spiritual-Cosmic Tasks of Man
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the astral, etheric, and physical bodies, we have to say that
his physical organism, man dwells within this (upper) region
subsist when, through the physical human beingand it can only
only by means of human beings. Man must enter the physical
tapestry, exist? If this world were not there, the physical
tapestry (circle) holds this physical world together. In the
physical world, the tendency exists to expand and spread out
other (physical) world together. The human being is not
understand the physical world without knowledge of the other
within this (physical) world, but how he has a cosmic

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XI: Man as a Mediator of the Spiritual Beings of the Cosmos
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disclosed if man penetrates the secrets of the physical and
centrifugal forces, but you must not picture them as physical
and from there into our physical brain, into which we think.
through birth into physical existence. There, we work out of
chaos of matter, into physical existence.

Title: Social Forms: Lecture XII: The Members of the Human Being and their Relationship with the Social Organism
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world into the physical realm, noting how the karmic
only because we have a physical body possessing a solid form.
because of the physical body's solid shape. Whether it be
it were. Our physical body merely prevents us from turning
human only in our physical body. In our etheric body, we bear
physical body, as such, lives in none of these realms; it
physical body possesses a domain of its own. The animal
the astral body, the etheric body and even the physical body
spiritually, from the physical body towards the etheric, we

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that he is composed of physical body, etheric body, astral
you will learn from them that physical, etheric, astral body
say that he normally consists, as it were, of physical body,
finally to the physical body. Here, however, we already enter
etheric bodies, in their work of perfecting the physical
body. Ultimately, in distant future times, man's physical
be clear about one thing. Let us take the physical body of
we can class this physical body of man with nothing but
placed in the same category with the physical body of the
human being. This human physical body, then, stands by itself
physical body, the etheric body is prevented from realizing
physical body the human being is not related to the
Physical Body
Physical Body
upon the human physical body, although only to a very slight
this earth life, man's physical body-does not exhibit a
Yes, but the human being does not take along his physical
it. This is true of the physical substance, but I should like
actually behold as the physical body in its form is not the
physical organism of man; it is the form (see
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Title: Social Forms: Lecture XIV: The Connection of the Members of Man with the Kingdoms of Nature, the Necessity of the Threefold Order
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that now is taking hold already of the physical environment.
The physical, however, is always the consequence of the
spiritual. The physical of the future will be the consequence
of the spiritual we harbor in our souls today. The physical
the most recent physical conditions are brought about by the
you have material occurrences. These physical occurrences are

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physical world has its source in the spiritual world. The
illusions of life — and in the merely physical world
merely as physical planets; instead, he speaks of the

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descending through conception and birth into physical
into physical life, and if salvation is to arise for the
in the physical world in the form of dreams, or what clothes
that it resembles the physical world, is only an image. As
with something that in this physical world cannot be
comprehended in terms of the physical world. The whole past
ingrained into the words by the merely physical life of the
something that extends beyond the physical-sensory sphere.
have often pointed out, they present the physical body as

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the spiritual, the psychic and the physical world which is revealed
the persons represented there belong as such to the physical world,
belonging to the physical world. Yet, as will manifest itself from
personalities in the physical world may take such a form that the
physical world) may also stand, with a more highly-awakened
action as played out in the physical world – things which
lift the whole action from the physical into the spiritual world.
spiritual impulses working through the physical human beings. If
would otherwise have applied in the physical world. In physical
not divorced from the natural and physical: rather, you have to do
moral, ethical significance. The physical becomes at the same time
ethical; and the ethical is brought down into physical
takes place physically and what takes place ethically. The ethical
takes place in the sphere of physical form, and the physical event

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physical instrument.

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aspects of man's physical, psychic
When it comes to reciting, the physical
draw the physical and corporeal after. We do
first adjust the physical with clumsy techniques that will rein our

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that it is not a question of thinking in terms of a new physical
physical external world. Put accurately it is like this: Man has a
live in light. We see the external light with physical senses; the
If physicists were for once to talk sense, they would not produce

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physical and in this final condition of the physical that which has
reality then would be that which has developed physically out of the
physical and the moral or psychic.
materialistic, seeing physical events as the only thing in the world,
people — these moral and physical points of view — what I
barren, abstract creatures, as the physicists do, and analyze light
must have in order to be able to look with our sense on to a physical
that of a dry physicist. We are complete beings only if we say to
thank them. Our view then is not that of dry physicists, but of
What at one period is moral organization, is at another physical
organization; and what at one time is physical organization was once
into physical things. Does the man who looks at Nature spiritually
in his ego and his astral body from the physical and etheric body.
diagram. Imagine physical and etheric body, astral body and ego bound
the physical life. So you see the question is important: What
space, to assess what is spread out in physical space in moral terms.
are looking at the world physically, and, at the same time, morally.
The physical and moral do not exist side by side, but in his
physical, there on the other, the moral. No, they are only different
gradually through Spiritual Science to spiritualize physical concepts:
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tendency (since the spirit manifests itself in everything physical)
imitation of external, physical nature, this only shows that we
it is lifted out of physical experience through imagination (even

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the “I” with the whole upper body. For our physician friends

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a physical abnormality — in the case of a child, for example,

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feeling, which already leads to a greater extent into the physical.
in people who are becoming weak — not the extension in the physical,
outward physical studies, but also by outward means, this process of

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activity which counters the physical movement will be aroused particularly
indications and one must not go too far. The physician, however, can go

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the physical body continually out of the etheric body. Thus, the physical

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his etheric body behind in the physical body. When the human being
movements and has them carried out by the physical body. That is to
say one allows the physical body to glide into all those etheric movements
apparent as well. The result is that by means of the physical movement
the physical body and strengthens them. But what happens as a result
through which he glides with his physical body into the movements which
the case of physical movements. They are retained and so, while listening
he would like to be imitating outwardly, physically, when he listens
It is a continual curbing of what unceasingly strives to become physical
one examines the etheric-physical correlative, it is essentially what
with someone where it can be demonstrated physically that his head organism
is taken over into the rhythm of the circulatory system. Physically
It is carried out by the most physical part of the head organism and
the rhythm of spiritual and physical activity. The Swedes and the
That which I have to say about eurythmy particularly to the physicians

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(held before physicians)
indicate the deeper spiritual-physical connections as well. Thus I would
physical world. That is a process which becomes so tangible in the
It is the same process. Here one must draw the attention of the physicians
and consult only with the physicians themselves. Thus you will always

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Colour, the subject of these three lectures, interests the physicist
knowledge which really lies only in the province of the physicist. In
Nevertheless, in Physics we speak of a “thrust” because
fact that it has an etheric body in addition to its physical body. It
greenness is, indeed, in its physical body, making green peculiar to
of this ensouling as passing into his physical bodily form, he can
darkness — in black darkness no physical being can do anything.

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You will observe, we come here upon things which upset Physics
completely — you can take everything known today in Physics about
physical colour-scale entirely in order to get to the colour which can
ordinary scheme of the physicist, all you can say is: All
Now, if I did not do that as it is on the physical plane, but were to
colours than anything you see in the books on Physics.
recognize the materialization of the colours in the physical

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the physicists of colour have regarded the theory of colour as a part of
new physics. We find, for example, the characteristic explanation of
characteristic of the new Physics, for it is based approximately on
things cannot be understood with the clumsy ideas of Physics. They
understood in this way, the transition into Art. Physics, with its
has not the least idea what to make of what Physics has to say
of which modern Physics takes no account. We are brought to the
modern physical Optics. The element of colour is fluctuating, and the
pot. But if the physicist comes along then and draws his lines on the
has nothing to do with Physics. Physics must be content with the light
outside the physical human body in proportion as they are bound up
with colour out there; they only reproduce the colours in the physical
Colour is the conveyer of the Ego and the astral body into the physical
Thus everything which has crept into Physics, and which Physics
one speaks of colour in a discussion on Physics; but one should try to
the sphere of Art. Our Physics had ruined it for us; and therefore it
further corrupted by the physical view, but that it must be understood

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through death the physical body remains behind within the
of the physical body, the physical organization. We have the
of the physical substances, but of the formative forces,
The physical matter naturally falls away, but these forces are
concretely, as one can study physical things. And spiritual
the physical aspect. The pangs of conscience which radiate into
formed in the physical body and in the ego. This ego, as it is
physical and etheric bodies the astral body and ego. This is
the same time, adherents of the theories of modern physics.

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start from the point of view of man's physical being. This physical
healthy ground once these polarities in the physical human being are
setting to work in the head region; or that when the physical body
human being there are constant swings of the pendulum, physically
the mechanical and physical aspects of the world which can only be

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astrophysics. Our astronomy and astrophysics show us the mechanics of

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physical bodies of human beings. These wholly do his bidding and he
feels he is the lord of human physical bodies. But he could not feel
himself: Here on earth I am the master. From the earth the physical
physical bodily nature, or rather whatever is expressed by this
physical bodily nature, namely, everything to do with the intellect
on their physical body. What is achieved today is similar, but higher
physical shock, the pupils’ external intellect was damped down.
pupil. It was definitely a physical draught which, through the way it
same was achieved in a more physical way through the ancient draught
by influencing the physical organism. The effect of the draught of
forgetfulness on the physical organism — it can be exactly
before he made the connection with a physical body through
the draught of forgetfulness and by being shocked into physical
spiritual powers whose influence on the human physical body was
of mankind, is that in more ancient times the physical body was
the physical, bodily aspect. Since the fifteenth century the human
being has been organized in such a way that changes in the physical

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extricating his soul and spirit element from his physical body,
to Mystery knowledge the brain was actually made physically softer,
of spirit and soul to unite with the physical, bodily nature of man.
physical incarnation, his element of soul and spirit, in a way, dies
spiritual world. And when he dies here in the physical world and goes
we are born. And when we die in respect of the physical world we are
born in the spirit. Death in the physical world signifies spiritual
birth, birth in the physical world signifies spiritual death. Birth
a physical body in order to preserve itself.
is forced to equip itself with physical matter (blue). But the
physical matter actually only works in the way I have described
increasingly independent. As we grow up our physical body recedes
portal of death. In a way they slew the physical aspect, they
spirit and soul element over against our physical body, as far as our
toning down his physical body. We today endeavour to make manifest
see? A cataract comes about when the physical matter of the eye makes
itself independent so that it dresses itself up in physical matter
beings as objectively as we perceive external physical objects
extent that it becomes capable of seeing through the physical body.
the physical body — the brain on the one hand, and the rest of
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sense-perceptible physical organism. We shall look first at how this
element of spirit and soul prepares for physical incarnation by
physical incarnation through the portal of death and returns to the
the physical organism, right at the moment of conception, a
transformation takes place when the human being departs from physical
physical life on earth?
experienced during physical earthly life. And by considering our more
existence in the soul during physical earthly life. Thoughts are
lost its inner vitality as a result of our descent into the physical
shadows, confined within our human physical organism, of something
conception. Before the human being descends to the physical world we
prior to physical life something lives in the soul which, as fear,
experience outside the physical body is something quite different
from fear within the human physical body.
contract into a human physical body.
the transition into the physical body. Birth in the physical body is
the corpse of the physical human being dissolves into the elements of
world and becomes the force which is unfolded in physical thoughts.
corpse of our spirit and soul element in our world of physical
thoughts. The world of physical thoughts is the continuing in death
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and birth into the physical, sense-perceptible world, the human being
of fear that fills our soul before we descend to the physical world
during physical earthly life, of a soul that has — in a way
to the physical organization of the human being as a threefold
physical substance, but in its form — of the rest of the body,
not its physical substance, of course, but its shape — becomes
wisdom. As regards nature, it merely looks at what is physically
character who belongs fully to the Middle Ages. A modern physicist or
— the physicist by Geissler tubes and other things, the chemist
the spiritual pictures and the physical creatures of the earth were

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delicate parts which live in the physical constituents. These can
had heard somewhere how Oppolzer, a physician in Vienna, used a

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exist, and what is there on the physical plane is something which
between what exists on the physical plane and what lives in these
In France the battle takes place on the physical earth, in a
as the physical plane. It comes down as far as human souls and
spirits in the physical world — if you want to describe this
the physical plane. If you want to seek deeds which parallel the
physical plane. In a diagram depicting what happens in the East you
above the physical plane, while down below, untouched by it, would be
what shows externally on the physical plane.

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and had perforce to make use of the instrument of a physical body,

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by the person belonging to the external, physical earthly world, by
working together of the spiritual with the physical —
physical plane but would have taken place above human beings, in the
conception — into his physical life on earth. The thoughts
took moral matters just as much into account as physical
which has come over him as a physical illness, a kind of leprosy.
Everyone avoids him. No physician can cure him. Then he meets a
clever doctor in Salerno who tells him that no physical medicine can
outside this physical life on earth the human being is a spirit. So
physical, earthly life, then he will have to turn to the spiritual

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satisfy everything that is present in the sense-perceptible physical
follow their physical urges and instincts alone, then in turn they
not be given to him through ordinary physical life, but that he could
differs from their approach, say, to a book on physics or chemistry,
reason that the human physical body will otherwise succumb more and
physical plane are everywhere steeped in the element of spirit and
physical organism is arranged, so it is with the visible language

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begun. We know that the form of man's physical body is the
which becomes the spiritual seed, as it were, for his future physical
imaginative world, one has left one's physical body behind

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through his physical and etheric bodies. By virtue of the
appropriately developed sense organs in the physical and etheric
related to the physical and etheric bodies; it is at one with them,
the physical and the etheric bodies.
physical-etheric environment. One therefore must speak of a
physical-etheric environment or world in which man exists during this
world, however, is totally different from the physical-etheric world.
Just as the physical world is our environment when we are awake, so
form, how the realms of the physical-etheric world — the
direction of our physical-etheric environment, we perceive the three,
physical-etheric world and the super-sensible world. We already know
in the same way as one describes the physical-etheric world by means
the viewpoint of the physical-etheric world and its history. Today,
physical-sensible world. There, I employed philosophical expressions,
bearer of his physical and etheric bodies. In a manner of speaking,
man withdraws his experiences as a bearer of his physical and etheric
physical and etheric bodies. I interweave my earthly existence with
transported from his physical body — as the experience of the
perceived by Lemurian man, when he was transported from his physical

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physical body. In that epoch, however, the physical body was a body of
all, physical man. Physical man is part and parcel of the earth. In
human physical body. Expressed differently, in more esoteric terms,
physical body actually reached completion by the middle of the
Golgotha was at hand, the evolution of the physical constitution of
human physical body had reached a degree of decline where the men who
spirit-and-soul and building a physical body out of materials provided
by the physical earth. This danger existed, and the inevitable
the Mystery of Golgotha, whereby the human physical body itself was
possible to live in physical bodies. Such was the actual effect of the
promoting the growth and thriving of man's physical body were
sleep-life. In sleep, the physical body and ether-body remain behind;
have then befallen, namely, that the physical bodies of men would have
endangered. For the consequence of this physical deterioration would
constitution as human beings is such that our physical body has
sun-levity. Had the human physical body become what it must
sun and have left the physical body. The existence of mankind on earth
the physical body, no matter what men believe or do not believe about
of the physical-etheric nature of man by Christ.
Golgotha complete provision was made for the physical-etheric nature
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by a physical body. Through this sheath-for-the-ego he became a citizen
which dwells in the physical body and has an impulse to move about on
have referred to man's physical body as of prime importance. To him
more. Now the physical body became paramount. Everything has its deep
culture we see this full, fresh penetration into the physical body.
this fresh experience of the physical body gave way to something like
Roman individual felt his physical body as a ceremonial robe bestowed
as they are connected with the outer physical appearance of man, their
originates in man. In this fashion he grew more and more into his physical
permeation of the physical body by the soul; whereas in the last
on our physical body.
have gradually become estranged from our physical bodies.
man must more and more develop the faculty of disregarding the physical,
disregarding the physical starry sky, disregarding the physical course
above and beyond the physical sense world before he can find it again
in himself without the physical. Side by side with this deep soul-need,
the spiritual in the physical, but not natural today.
remained stationary, we can no longer see the spiritual in the physical;
we consider only the physical as such. This is materialism. It means

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my physical environment will become manifest; this environment will
heritage, through soul and spirit, preserve from the action of physicality
do not belong to the physical earthly environment. We bring them with us
buildings to protect the human soul against inroads from their physical
his physical body; whereupon soul and spirit must find their way back
derived from stones, plants, animals, are worked over by the physical
the physical body is a mediator between the human being who comes down
from spiritual worlds and this so alien earth. Thanks to the physical
the physical body has been laid aside, then the naked soul enters a
if you wish to leave the physical body in order to regain a relationship
me with the physical world? Ecclesiastical architecture bodies forth, as
from the spiritual into the physical world, then I must tell you something
physical body had the sensation that through it he entered into relation
with a physical environment, grew into space. To him the physical body
before my descent into the physical world. But color, tone harmonies,
his physical body from his environment did not befit him as a human
often explained that we must not make the silly objection: The physical
physical filling out; only with a force relationship which can pass
inheres in all parts of our physical organism below the head (whether

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when it leaves the physical body at death or otherwise. During earth
with its environment through the physical body, and to experience spatial
leaves the physical world, it tries, as it were, to impress its own
on dipping down into the physical body — of finding in it a sheath
striving after descent into the physical world.
to the world through the physical body.
objects dealt with in physics. They appear in various colors. Color,
physicists have made matters easier for themselves by saying that colors
shows physicists at a loss in regard to the problem of color. To throw
out, we do see colors in purely physical things which can be counted,
measured, weighed on scales. But what is perceived in physics does not
content: we will not arrive at color. That is why physicists say that
that is why it appears yellow. Physics (I have characterized a recent
descending into or leaving the physical; rather it experiences something
impertinently abstract conceptual definitions — physical body,

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I discussed during the last two lectures. Looking at the physical
surroundings akin to his physical body, he comes to realize that
physicality is not the whole of his humanness. In all artistic and
intensity: What can be learned through the physical senses leads to
strangers in regard to this inmost being. On entering physical existence
physical-earthly.
the divine-spiritual hovering, before his soul and the physical-sensory
presented imperfectly in the sensory-physical, could be brought to
clarity without infidelity to the physical. In other words, he let the
the spiritual into the physical; not deal with it comprehensively and
idealistically into the spiritual world, he used physical things as
artistically the sensory-physical-earthly form to a point where it became
other words, by changing only slightly the purely physical, he led it
the sensory-physical-earthly to a level where it could image forth the
the abyss between the sensory-physical-earthly and divine-spiritual.
always endeavoring, in his works, to purify the earthly physical to the
the human soul relinquished, as it were, all connection with outer physical
physical-sensory the divine for which Goethe constantly strove through
sensory-physical.

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wisdom: During the day we see light with the physical body, at night we
body. Thus he felt himself existing not only upon the physical earth,
have before us in the physical world is never still very long. Now let
which in the physical world is still only a moment is here, so to speak,
ourselves with a conception of this relationship within spiritual-physical
mother with her child seen here on the physical earth.

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physical and etheric body: he abandons, so to speak, his physical and
and clouds are during wakefulness outside our physical and etheric
recognizing such physical things as belonging certainly to the outer
physical science without doubt is determined according to weight,
and counting really constitutes the physical. We would not describe a
body as physical unless we could somehow put it to the proof by means
countable. If we want to define any physical object, what constitutes
its real physical nature is the part that can be weighed or counted,
and with this alone the physicist really wants to be concerned. Of
so on. One could really say that the modern physicist cannot make head
it were, to the physical; sound is wrung from the physical; warmth and
cold surge up out of the physical. One says: that which has eight has
When we go about in our physical world and see something or other, we
weight, we are apt to consider something that appears in the physical,
If you open a book on Physics today you will see the explanation
given — the rainbow is an optical illusion. Physicists look upon
is made of this projection in modern Physics. Thus I assume we see a
the physical and etheric bodies, comes in the end to the conclusion
In physical mathematics it is a matter of indifference to divisions
it — through the help of our physical body — as we behave
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while shaded from its physical light prepared them for the ready acceptance
Cromlechs and dolmens: instruments whereby the physical effects of the
speak of a detached Sun, exerting its physical and etheric influences
not assume a physical body in the human sense, but who, as the result
really instruments whereby the outer physical effects of the Sun were
physical nature of the light of the Sun was warded off, a dark space
kindling his human being even into the physical. Yet this working into
the physical was spiritual at the same time, and the inner
giants of the frost, whose outward physical symbol is in the frost,

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the same time a physical experience in our senses. Thus, when the
became an article of faith with those who were just expert physicists.
by the physicists as a fool. But it was not really the case that

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world. These are the physical body, the etheric body and the astral
body. Man really carries the physical, etheric and astral bodies with
physical, etheric and astral bodies. This will give us the foundation
point of view for the study of the physical, the etheric and the astral
The physical as we behold
physical qualities of everything on the Earth, living and lifeless. It
the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body and the
Ether too is imperceptible for our physical senses. If I may put it so,
your physical senses, you simply see through it. The Ether is like an
Physical science
theorises materialistically about the blue of the sky; and for physical
where we see the blue of the sky there is nothing physical. Nevertheless
heavens those material entities of which modern physics tells. It is the
which have only been explained to us by means of physical hypotheses
Earth, in a world that is in reality threefold, — physical,
is present, on the Earth in our immediate environment, as the physical
human beings have a physical body: where, then, is the Physical in the
pointed out. The physical science of to-day expects to find everything
which is on the Earth existing also in the Universe. But the physical
in the first place his physical organisation: then in addition he has
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physics. This means that the time has begun when belief in
sense, a physician. He was shocked that I had used just this
this physician, told him this and that, and then he said he was

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anyone intending to begin with metaphysical clarity starts out
metaphysics, such a philosophy, Spengler arrives at the

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how to follow it back from the external physical world
descended from the spiritual world to the physical plane
today. Souls really descend to the physical world with
anticipation before descending to the physical plane were
the ones, for example, who observed this physical plane, saw
with regard to entrance through birth into physical existence,
upon the physical earth-plane.

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imitate. When a child enters physical existence he only
physical world. In it we continue our habit of being one with
physical body must become an imitator in the right way we shall

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existed before we were clothed with a physical body. If mankind
we existed in spirit before we descended into the physical
which they existed before they acquired a physical body.
imitator since he develops chiefly his physical body during

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physical world what he cannot acquire in the life between death
externally brought to completion in the physical configuration
spiritual world into man as a physical being?
interested in what continues in physical life from out the
continues out of the spiritual into physical existence in a
spiritual world before he descended into the physical world. Up
the physical world, to clothe oneself with a body in order to
the greatest degree adapted to the physical world. This may
that this head is to the greatest degree adapted to physical
existence. It expresses physical existence in the highest
physical body in its main aspects we must look toward the head.
In regard to the head, man is mostly physical body. In regard
body. The ego has no distinct expression in the physical world
head we see the chief part of the physical body. The head
chest-man the ether body is more active; therefore, physically,
no physical correlate.
consists of the physical body, characterized mostly by the
hardly indicate anything for the ego in physical man. Thus,
physical body; the chest for the ether body; metabolism for the
one. Observed purely physically, chest and head organs have
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physical body.
observe physical man, externally. The Christ-being is of such a

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astral body, ether body, and physical body. The fact that every
physical body.” But what is physical in it we would not
physical body. We see it as it usually is today only because it
Strange as it may sound, that which is the physical body proper
by a human corpse we are actually confronted by the physical
body. In the corpse we have physical man not permeated by ether
believe you carry what you consider to be the physical body of
by outer physical science, but spiritual-scientific cognition
corpse as is the modern human body. As physical bodies they
were akin to plant nature, whereas the present-day physical
moment will never come. On the chemico-physical path one will
nevertheless this physical body, this corpse. What then does
be able to know in the same way that the physical body knows
field of physical labor people need an impulse that takes hold

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physical laws of the human form for the cause of this action,
the realm of the physical forces which are present in the human
the chemical, physical, lifeless forces of the corpse
saying: Yes, indeed, it is possible to investigate the physical
active are only the physical and chemical laws. The other group
necessary to cross over from an ordinary physical world
physical corpse and say that it is lifeless, then a descent
the physical.
in the physical. You will say: “Yes, but the causes of
much that occurs in the physical lie prior in time.” This
physical, then the causes must last, must continue to act. If
physical.
simultaneousness in the physical and the super-physical.
the physical and super-physical.
causes in the chemical and physical processes taking place
earthly, within the physical, or the super-physical etheric,
inner processes of the animal's physical, chemical forces, I
friends, this does not even agree with physical
simultaneousness of the causes in the physical and
super-physical, but we must then speak of past super-physical
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Outwardly, physically, as finger it is the same as previously,
physical corpse in the realm of the lifeless, and, on the
it follows that the human being as he lives in the physical
ether forces. We carry within us the ether body. The physical
physical world, and what shows this to be true is the fact
that, as a corpse, it decays in the physical world.
into our physical body, what is connected with our more
period, just before we descend from the super-physical into
physical existence.
physical world as our inborn sympathies and antipathies.
for themselves. Thus, we see actually here within the physical

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death lives in his physical body, in his whole organism, in
none the less, affects this physical earth existence.
we may call a spiritual world in contrast to our physical
world; in this spiritual world he does not have a physical body
dead look down onto the physical world just as the living that
is the physically living — look upward into the spiritual
the human being here in the physical world between birth and
still penetrated into physical earth existence.
increase of their physical forces; they begin to carry
physical strength of the human beings of that time was
their physical actions; their physical deeds went parallel with

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into the physical. You will understand, my dear friends,
we descend out of the spiritual into the physical world for an
earth life, we have, to begin with, prepared our physical body
physical body is, nevertheless, connected in a certain
clear about the fact that the physical body is given to us from
physical body which is given to him by heredity. The union of
body — with the physical human embryo can ensue only
maternal organism from the physical human embryo.
human being, thus, unites himself with the physical germ after
physical organism comes, as we have seen, from the stream of
when we descend from the spiritual world into the physical, we
born again at the same time in the physical body.
of which he usually seeks in his physical nature in accordance
physical body. For the soul experience which must seize upon
the physical body must, indeed, become conscious. But the
because the spiritual world is different from the physical.
physical body, and therefore cannot rise above the earth beyond

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on his physical and etheric constitution. It is dependent on
physical earth existence.
human being has his whole physical organism as a product of
what is given to him by his forebears. He carries this physical
human being has most assuredly, at the outset, his physical
organism from his parents. But what is this physical organism
ourselves physical matter, and without the help of physical
forbears form our own physical body?
earth to form his physical body. But he fell a prey to the
the faculty of building his physical body out of his own
way of obtaining the physical body is, for the human being, the
Therefore, he cannot form his physical body through his own
brought into physical earth existence out of the spiritual
the way the human being descends into the physical world.
physical life on earth are different in every way from those he
of spiritual science as well as physical science, such
physical, hereditary relationship.
their souls in the entire physical cosmos. The inner life of a
human being who has this warm interest in the physical cosmos
have for what is in the physically visible world. Let us
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its physical reflection out of the spiritual world.
his being. We have distinguished in him the physical body, the
the physical world, perceive the membering of the human being
simply according to his physical form, then this physical form
human embryo. As physical form, the human being is a head in
being. For in reality he is, also as physical form, a threefold
feeling, and willing. Thinking finds its physical expression
chiefly in the head. But it has its physical organism also in
the physical standpoint; even from the physical standpoint it
as it is in the physical life. You inhale, the air you now have
And just as you are thus connected on your physical side, so
— concerns itself with that which has its physical
Let us imagine ourselves standing somewhere in the physical

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accustomed to call his physical body; beyond this is the etheric body
body, and the physical body in its true form — lies outside his
the physical body in ordinary science, in anatomy, physiology and so
the physical body, not the physical body itself.
those contents of the astral, etheric and physical bodies of which
bodily form which is acquired during the earliest period of physical
of uprightness that intervenes in our physical development is of the
body of formative forces or etheric body, and his physical body. And
on his physical development. At the present juncture in man's earthly
also exists among men that the content of the physical world of the

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The man of to-day sees the sun as a physical body. The influence of the
experienced his personality through the physical rays of the sun.

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light, but seeing them as a physically perceptible fact in a
world; but it is an error to identify ourselves with physical nature
Teacher but the Physician of mankind.
with his ordinary intelligence up to the end of his physical life —

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an important being who would not have entered the physical plane, but
spirits, that this being should appear, even if not on the physical

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carried into what has remained — physically blunted — of
the twentieth century. It is not an event now in the physical world,
what the Romans felt prior to the Augustan age, as the physically
record what is perceived physically —
physical terms, this attitude is present in external science.
deeper knowledge of the soul: Until our physics, our mechanics, the

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ordinary physical consciousness. Within the limits of
ordinary physical consciousness there are no effectual social
by means of ordinary physical thinking. This is something
they remain at the state of physical thinking. The Mystery of

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they could not even exist in this physical world but for the
in a wholesome way from physical reality to spiritual
physical plane, whereas what constitutes the human being is

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between the physical plane and the spiritual world, but the
physical plane is looked upon in a certain instinctive way as
longs to create a paradise on this physical plane. Because of
things within the physical earthy existence.
The physical
able to establish, when once realized on the physical plane,

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impossible on the physical plane. For this reason, all
lasting paradisaical state upon the physical plane, rest

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astral body are outside the physical and the etheric body.
astral body, on the one hand, and the physical and etheric
different relationship to his physical and etheric bodies.
with him as the physical and the etheric nature becomes ill

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basis of external physical reality. But everything that is to
labor, his physical capacity for handwork.
reality belonging to the physical plane, may be sharply
belong to the sensory physical world, and are not visible in
the physical world and the latter rushing in from the
physical world and in the presence of the Guardian of the
perfect; if we look at the physical, the perfect is derived
way to the Guardian of the Threshold out of the physical
the spiritual world down into the physical world. They do

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spiritual world separated from our physical-sensible world by a kind
first given to man is the physical-sensible world, and he makes use
physical world with all kinds of concepts, ideas and so on; but all
being is born on the earth, a quite new soul unites with his physical
body. The Aristotelian doctrine is that for each physically-born
physical body — and of this Aristotle also speaks —
physical birth. Suppose a Catholic theologian today studies the
together with the physical body from the philosophy of Aristotle! He

Title: Young Doctors Course: Lecture I
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medical students and young physicians. The course
physicians approach a sick human being without having any
human physical body. The streaming of the fluids in the
physical laws of the physical body apply to the solid man;
Human breathing, for instance, in its physical manifestation,
the physical man (physical body), of the fluid man (etheric
physically occupied by the human being, and even beyond this.
say the most nonsensical — is that of psycho-physical
outlined physical organization.
why the bridge between the physical nature and the life of
so a theory like that of psycho-physical parallelism has
the physical to the life of soul.
restores the physical substances that are succumbing to the

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medical students and young physicians. The course
being. I spoke of the physical body which is to be connected
are, however, united with the physical body as primary
ego organization, in reality? In the physical world, it is to
be perceived in the form of the physical body. In the
physical world, of course, both the inner and the outer form
must be included. Looking at the physical body of man as it
stands in the physical world, we must realize that it has
the physical world. For the moment a human being passes
the physical body, this body begins to be subject to the
physical body is destroyed by the forces that are working in
the physical world. When the ego organization is forming and
shaping the physical body, therefore, this means that it
physical world.
physical body. Nourishment of the physical body consists in
foodstuffs. When it is no longer possible for the physical
the physical body. We can say that death occurs when it is
ego organization do with the physical body? It destroys the
process is continually balanced out by the physical body
you are destroying your physical body inwardly, whereas when
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medical students and young physicians. The course
physical-etheric significance but also a psychical and moral
form. Physical reality is subject to the element of time, and

Title: Young Doctors Course: Lecture IV
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medical students and young physicians. The course
should serve as a foundation for physicians. Owing to the
previous lectures as a sketch of what a physician ought to
being cannot have within his physical organism. For all that,
human being come into existence? The physical germ comes into
this physical germ and the etheric body of the human being.
with the physical germ cell which is the result of
in turn unites with the physical embryo. Ego, astral
unites with what comes into being through the physical
the etheric body first unites with the physical organization
for the physical organization, namely, the lead forces, the
are not within him physically. The substances that are not
contained in the physical organism of man are of the greatest
the etheric body, before it unites with the physical body,
with the physical body. All the forces derived by the etheric
physical body now pass over to the astral body — this
etheric body then takes on those forces which the physical
content and constitution of the physical body and gives over
influence on the physical constitution of a person who is
born in such a district. The physical body is different in a
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medical students and young physicians. The course
and for the physician — this general indication towards
how they draw in physical and chemical forces and substances,
cosmos. Meditation, above all for the physician, does not
the physical world. This would have to form part of the

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medical students and young physicians. The course
or the watery element which confronts us in the physical
the human being in the physical world are no longer
is subject. It is only the bony structure in the physical
physical perception, can in reality, only grasp the bony
is described by physics today does not exist, in reality. The
together with the physical substantiality of the air. Once
there is a physical isolation from the external air —
towards the background of the physical world. After reading
always get the picture: Here is the physical world and behind
physical matter in the plant is like someone who has a
reality the root is spiritual, filled with physical substance
physical substance.
reality is that only the bony system is physical; the muscles
do simply to think: There is the physical world and one must
this spirit is merely filled with physical substance. To say
that man is a physical being is an illusion; man in himself
a physical condition but also a condition of the life of
We can therefore speak of a physical warmth and a soul
air is not the fantastic air of the physicists which
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medical students and young physicians. The course
has worked in a healing way on his physical body and has been
introduce into the physical body substances which then work
the physical body in such a way that the etheric body of the
means of medicaments which proceed from the physical body and
that the physical body, when it has become ill, can itself
bring about any healing. The physical body has, precisely,
are not in physical contact, heart and uterus belong together
to the etheric-physical body — these organs, heart and
uterus, are, physically, nothing else than that which, seen
of the physical environment. A person whose life is such that
the purely physical process which it is usually considered to
create in him. Spiritual beings are within our physical,
that we are free. These spiritual beings within the physical,
the physical body after death. The question of cremation and
physician of a purely personal nature or are they affected by
physician and patient but by community among physicians? Is
it conceivable that the individual physician could acquire,
is a labor that is quite like physical labor because it puts
physical labor. There is a relationship between physical
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medical students and young physicians. The course
of the physician must be that no healing is possible if it
runs counter to karma. In his will-to-heal, the physician's
be fulfilled. The physician needs this above all for himself,
physician, too, is naturally subject to karma so far as his
direction of the physician's attitude is, therefore, towards
physician. The physician will not be able to content himself
your work as physicians you are able to help human beings by
to you about the attitude of the physician shall be
own, for manifold physical forces play around the bony skull;
here, in the physical world. Therefore there stands at the
physical world. In the physical world, for example, the part
greater than the whole. Our laws of mechanics and physics do
to what is a matter of course in the physical world. Courage
the etheric body and the physical body. All seems to be
than its external weight. But the physical body, in the form
confusion when they are looked at with physical eyes. And
is not anchored in the physical body. Gold is related to the
example, may give rise to in the physical body. For this
the ego and astral body come down in the physical and etheric
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medical students and young physicians. The course
lectures given to physicians of the Medical Section,
whole physical body. This must be taken as a fundamental
teeth, so far as his physical substance is
when the human being comes physically into the world he has,
The physical body of the first seven years — if we
physical embryo, therefore, we must say: Physical nature in
what is demolished in the physical world, amnion, chorion,
pre-earthly forces work out this second physical man who is
physician, the book Occult Science and read where the earth's
became physical — and you find this today in the stream
inner being of soul and spirit is bound up with the physical
time, working into the physical very strongly and having,
can see it with your very eyes. And now, as a physician, you
down and makes its way to the physical foodstuff, ignoring
colors. What is white in the physical is black in the
What had really happened? We had excised the physical spleen

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medical students and young physicians. The course
inner will to become a physician and to say to oneself:
becoming a physician, the following ought to be taken in the
very deepest sense: The conception of becoming a physician
profession. One ought really to become a physician because of
so harmful as it is in the profession of the physician to
humanity must be implicit in the physician's profession. A
physician should find his bearings quite naturally in his
favorable for real healing when people become physicians just
is still worse when someone thinks he can become a physician
not had the attitude that one ought to have as a physician,
become physicians in order to heal, but we have become
physicians because of the great interest that we had in
to human destiny, this sympathy that one feels as a physician
in the various domains of life. The physician needs a rather
lecturer spoke about the work of the physician in his
physician I was looking for something different in scientific
whole interpretation of her condition was too physical, and
you pass on from the physical description — this was
physical—the moment you pass on to the etheric body,
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medical students and young physicians. The course
essentially different from the physical body. The physical
body is heavy, the etheric body is not. The physical body
You include the universe when you study the physical body and
the etheric body of man. The physical body is inwardly
physical body as being forces which draw the human being to
his physical body. The reason he was able to incorporate into
physical body into the corpse. By the side of these words we
say: The forces which split up the physical organism in order
the memory than upon man's physical power of assimilation.
rudiment in the physical body of what otherwise lies entirely
be developing not only your physical body but your etheric
contained in the physical environment and the faculty to

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medical students and young physicians. The course
but for the physicians, too, they are very important. I have
including many physicians — were at his court. It was a
theologian; Mark, the jurist; Luke, the physician; and John,
jurist, and a fourth from the standpoint of the physician.
lectures to physicians given by me here will perhaps remember
weight? A physician, however, has to find measure, number,
and when the physical, material part of it has fallen away.
reach the cosmic truths. The physician, too, must be
insurance. It is the factor of the physician who is excluded
exclusion of the human element in the physician. In truth, it
is the physician who heals — not the products of
physician. But in the purely Ahrimanic character of health
own physician. I believe the expression ‘healing
many other domains, too, showing how urgently the physician's
help is needed for its curing. But just where the physician
always appears in angelic form. If the physician himself is

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medical students and young physicians. The course
being — physical body, etheric body, astral body, and
ego has its own special structure. The structure of physical
with a physical etheric structure which in the sleeping human
sleeping human being we have a physical etheric structure
physical body and etheric body. These two structures are very
different from each other. The physical-etheric structure is
essential thing is that the physical-etheric structure and
physical world in waking consciousness, the spirit and soul
(astral body and ego) are inserted into the physical-etheric
every physical organ that is warmed through and irradiated by
cosmos works through the etheric body, and in every physical
maintain its physical and etheric structure receives a
physical illnesses. Speaking generally, the cause of physical
physical world, because the geometry that comes to expression
the physical-etheric organization, physical illness ensues.
In former times, therefore, the spirit in the physical organs
ordinary plants the physical and etheric principles are at
This leads to the principle: physical illness arises when the
physical organism or its parts are becoming too strongly
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medical students and young physicians. The course
Course for physicians and

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medical students and young physicians. The course
Soul and Spiritual in the Human Physical
in addition to the physical body, there are also higher
organism itself. The general idea is that, as a physical
physical organism exists for itself, as it were; it is the
physical body; in so far as we consider it in its entirety,
is the physical body.
Physical organism: Physical body
Physical body
investigate this — it can also be done with physical
specific weights. In regard to the physical organism,
physical organism.
if we disregard the physical organization within the space
of feeling into physical operation in the human airy
physical body still intrudes and tones down the pictures into
only his physical organism, and there is no soul in it. If
expression, this is the same as seeing only the physical
physical air with the Light Ether which permeates it. This
physical body and the etheric body that remain as they are
within the physical and etheric bodies are then also active
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medical students and young physicians. The course
be conceived as physical body. But it is paramountly the
remain in the physical but at the same time reach up to the
qualities, differs completely from the physical which alone
physiology or physical anatomy. In regard to consciousness
the physical world order? As has been said so often, the
natural science for knowledge of the outer physical world
bridge. There, on the one side, is the physical world;
of soul into the physical!
— though this is not so easy to prove with physical
the outwardly visible physical body. The air with its
physical, seed of life such as issues from the female
free when we lay aside our physical body at death. What is
Ego emerge from the physical body, these higher members of
physical world, even in the chemical sense. For tone works in
understood only if the physical is traced upwards to that
rarefied physical element, as for example in warmth. Then it
them merely as physical structures. When the ancient peoples
when they regarded the planets, at any rate, as physical, but
when it was no longer known how the physical passes over by
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medical students and young physicians. The course
natural-physical world order.
pictures this outer world, which is a physical, material
of thought is devoid of outer, physical reality. What, then,
and energy affirmed by physics is a delusion, because account

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birth (or conception) and physical death, and subject to the most manifold
that Nature receives into herself all the human soul perceives of physical,
do with this physical body? She destroys it. We do not usually study
does with the physical, sensible part of man, when he has passed through
happens to the physical instrument with which man does all things between
his life in the physical world, which is his instrument between birth and
makes his inner being a riddle again. Man feels his physical body must
contact it as long as I live in a physical body. Moreover, when my body
man can only complete his physical existence by co-operating with her.
again we find something significant. The artistic treatment of physical
material — spiritualisation of physical matter — comes down
truly belongs. Where is the artist today who can handle earthly, physical
confronting him today. He looks at Nature and only sees the human physical
its place today is something man is not able to lift above physical

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we found yesterday, we see, on the one hand, the human physical body,
physical world. We call it the physical body because it stands before
our physical senses just as the external, physical world. At the same
his physical body to the elements of the external, physical world; and
these destroy it. The action of external Nature upon the human physical
the physical world for what gives the human physical body its shape
of another world which builds up this human body that external, physical
between the human physical body and Nature. In the first place, the
when we observe the external manifestations of the physical body —
— it is nevertheless substances of the external, physical world
physical world — whether we are studying the separate excretions
or the whole physical body cast off at death.
body may be, their beginning and end are related to the external, physical
takes in substances from the external physical world and gives these
We have not determined the intermediary processes within the physical
with physical means at all. We have no right to draw the materialistic
case, we see an immediate transformation when external, physical substances
is immediate. The physical body of man is not the same, in its inner
takes in; on the other, what it gives of including even the physical
itself. From the study of what the human physical organism takes in
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introduction to the composition of man (physical body, etheric body, etc.)
however, really belongs in the first place to his physical, or at most
it out again at death — out of the physical and the etheric too.
however, two gates which lead from the physical and etheric worlds to
in the first place, the moon. The physicist knows nothing about the
that the cosmic body visible to our physical eye as the moon, was once
after all, that can also be interpreted as a physical fact. The important
of today, however, is constrained by his physical body to understand,
did not live in a physical body.
the physical moon that went out into cosmic space; these beings went
within his physical body, man is only able to contemplate a very weak
who studies it rightly will find, even in its external, physical
manner described, from the physical to the spiritual again. Through
today that the physical substance of their bodies is often changed in
the flesh and blood — or any physical substance — sitting
of its external, physical substance, and believe this was the same millions
as your present physical body was the same twenty years ago. Of course,
the physical substances of the stars are not exchanged so quickly; still,
they do not require so long a time as our physicists estimate in the
your body. True, the physical moon once went out into cosmic space;
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than destroy it. The moment man has become a corpse within the physical
on the physical organism, has its own life, its own existence, this
stands between two riddles. He looks outwards and perceives his physical
that of man's physical body and that of his psychical life. It is just
is connected with our ‘first’ or physical man. In just the
of our first (physical) body in relation to its physical environment.
earth — a connection similar to that between his physical body
and the physical earth. Such a science does not know this. It engages
in calculations; but even the calculations of Astrophysics, etc., only
cabbages, corn, etc., out there; they build up our physical body (if
connection between my physical body and what is there outside in the
what is physical and connected with your physical man. If you strengthen
you and the second man you have discovered just as the earthly, physical
world concerned you before. And, as you ascribe the origin of your physical
body to the physical earth, you now ascribe your
From your own experience you can now speak of having a physical body
I stretch out my physical arm and my physical hand takes hold of an
finer, super-sensible organism which exists no less than the physical
if we are thinking of man's physical body in the way described, we readily
to our physical, terrestrial environment; but how?
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as composed of physical, etheric and astral bodies, and how we can acquire
to begin with, we study the physical world — and we can really only
physical and chemical knowledge.
solid, earthy, physical realm, we do not find, to begin with. very much
the human etheric body is closely moulded to the physical body. It has
to a remarkably small degree, in our physical, bodily life. Here the
Indeed, if we had to carry our physical body with all its forces of weight,
bath, here his physical leg and here the same leg formed of water, then
the physical leg is lighter in water by the amount that this water-leg
fluid of the size of the physical brain. That is, it is reduced from
1,500 to 20 grammes. In physics this is called ‘upthrust’,
we can really see in the solid earthy substance the physical; in the
— contains only what the physicist and chemist know about water.
up in the following way: To begin with, there is the physical, in direct
a way that you can say: there is the physical man, and here is his etheric
body is a ‘time-organism’, the physical body a
‘space-organism’. The physical
upon us: Here is the physical body, here his etheric body. We can also
us into the physical. In respect to our astral body we always remain
the physical world should become spiritualists, not anthroposophists.
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what we have designated man's physical body, we see that it is continually
belong to the physical body as such, for they cease when it becomes
his physical body. Thus we may conclude, from mere external considerations,
physical body through sense impressions. And we know too that what may be
a vitalising, but a devitalising element. Physically speaking, we take
your soul are within the physical body. But now you have the same —
the exhaled air. Now the physical body cannot bear it, even in sleep, but
it physically — the carbonic acid you have exhaled. Of course, it
is a spiritual, not a physical process; you receive the impression
your physical body. You belong to your body, for you say to yourself:
now know that man's astral body, when within the physical, delights
the astral body is outside the physical when you sleep and receives,
impression that what we regard as most important for physical, earthly
life, is darkened as soon as we leave the physical body. And we realise,
the dependence of these thoughts upon their physical instrument —
Thus inspired knowledge perceives how the astral body is in the physical
the physical and etheric bodies during sleep. They are outside, and
is otherwise in the physical body, and to accompany it yourself. Sleep
is, of course, that man leaves his physical body behind in the earthly
of the physical world. It can no longer give rise to the impressions
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lectures that the ego and astral body are outside the physical and etheric
hold of in ordinary reality through the physical and etheric bodies.
The first kind of dream is an activity of the ego outside the physical
something to do with what is outside the physical and etheric bodies
a third the human liver. The physical matter provided by the mother's
into the physical man, we are led to ask what would happen if the
to do with other physical human beings. Imaginative vision leads to
physical world that it is not possible to carry them out; this hurts
with his ego out of his physical and etheric bodies in sleep; every
the physical and etheric bodies what he has experienced. At last, because
in the physical body.

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ordinary consciousness. The same is true of the physical and etheric
real knowledge of initiation does not estrange one from ordinary, physical
we can have of a physical human being standing before us with his several
the lungs, liver, stomach, and, most of all, the brain as physical organs,
we say to ourselves that these, in respect to the physical, are all
physical man as a withering being. Well, no one who knows the Science
must be remembered that, while we learn to know the physical man as
the physical as a decaying, withering being.
physical form, only beautified and ennobled (I say ‘almost’,
of the physical organ.
of physical existence while, at the same time, transcending the physical.
physical): When we begin to perceive man with imagination we feel in
physical structure of the human head. It is now transformed into something
we begin to study man's physical organisation imaginatively. We must
perceive his withering physical organisation. And if we look at what
tableau when he leaves his physical body at death. This lasts some days
physical world. If we have done an evil deed, we come to see we have
physically injured; and so on. All this can be observed in physical life
the physical world. It is regarded, more or less, as folly to declare
a mother but by the world, by all that we did not experience in physical
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willing, in unfolding his physical forces, too — all this he
few features indicate the role of the faculty of memory in physical,
and arise in sleep when the hindrances of the physical and etheric organism
we have in the physical world an appropriate conception of space. But
that we can also go from death to birth. As in the physical world one
the physical tree you experience in physical, earthly life; now,
in the physical world; only, it is not our experience: it is the pain
states which depend on our physical, earthly personality.
and the physical really is. You see, we can easily regard things like
thirst or hunger as physical. But I ask you to imagine that the same
physical changes that are in your organism when you are thirsty were
— through changes in the physical body. It is the same with hunger.
can only be satisfied by physical measures in physical life, it is as
if he were experiencing thirst in physical life; the psychical part of
to satisfy by physical means. For one cannot carry out physical functions
when the physical body has been laid aside. Man must first accustom
himself to live in his psycho-spiritual being without his physical body;
can only be gratified through a physical body. Just as the child must
himself to do without his physical body as the foundation of his
one-third of the time of physical life, which depict it as a veritable
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accustomed to call his physical body; beyond this is the etheric body
body, and the physical body in its true form — lies outside his
the physical body in ordinary science, in anatomy, physiology and so
the physical body, not the physical body itself.
those contents of the astral, etheric and physical bodies of which
bodily form which is acquired during the earliest period of physical
of uprightness that intervenes in our physical development is of the
body of formative forces or etheric body, and his physical body. And
on his physical development. At the present juncture in man's earthly
also exists among men that the content of the physical world of the

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The man of to-day sees the sun as a physical body. The influence of the
experienced his personality through the physical rays of the sun.

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light, but seeing them as a physically perceptible fact in a
world; but it is an error to identify ourselves with physical nature
Teacher but the Physician of mankind.
with his ordinary intelligence up to the end of his physical life —

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an important being who would not have entered the physical plane, but
spirits, that this being should appear, even if not on the physical

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carried into what has remained — physically blunted — of
the twentieth century. It is not an event now in the physical world,
what the Romans felt prior to the Augustan age, as the physically
record what is perceived physically —
physical terms, this attitude is present in external science.
deeper knowledge of the soul: Until our physics, our mechanics, the

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the relation of this moral-physical sun in the heavens, to the
physical eyes as something at the same time spiritual.
sympathetically moved by the physical self-evidence, by the
not look upon the physical universe as spiritual-material. As
plants and minerals and animals and physical men, was something

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Plotinus considers human nature with its physical and psychic
“sweating out” of the spiritual-physic, a
translated into more physical conceptions. And Aristotle had it
psychic-spiritual on the physical body and the subsequent
physical body was sufficiently performed: they had an idea of

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physical organism of man? Thomas Aquinas' view was still
psychic as working itself into the physical. When through
conception and birth man enters upon the physical existence, he
is equipped by means of his physical inheritance only with the
of physical comprehension; but that without pre-existence the
conceptions, is conceived only out of the physical world around
is, we must be free, but as we live here in the physical body,
physical body. That becomes concrete, real knowledge. The
how I tried to show there, how one part of the physical human
as to say concerning the physical body, how the spirit or the
spiritual-psychic into each separate part of the physical
which is otherwise bound to the physical man, becomes

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into his physical existence through the forces of this same nature.
regard nature if we only pay attention to its external physical
through the mystery of physical birth.
But just in this mystery of physical birth there always
world through those forces which, as the forces of physical birth,
origin — his physical and his spiritual origin. It is a birth
physical birth.” Our feeling is deepened when we understand in
him by means of natural physical forces. So we see how modern
towards the heavens and saw with their physical eyes the
the Virgin that which physically is only perceptible in the

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

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Customary thinking overlooks the fact that hearing, since its physical
quite objective processes, for physically speaking it is a matter of
physical world a man in movement is exactly the same thing to observe
makes no difference to the physical course of the process. The sense
there must be a reason for the fact that sight has a physical-sensible
perceptible physical organs. If we do that it will be a very long time

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in physical space,” when a university don to-day is able to write
physical-material being, is an image, a reproduction, of his spiritual
death is not in fact the pure soul-spiritual; it is the soul-physical,

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is precisely because in our head we have in physical transformation
the head — physical body, ether body, astral body and ego —
three members have created images of themselves in the physical
and the physical body most definitely so of all. On the other hand, in
but only of the etheric and physical bodies. And in the metabolic
system only the physical body has its mirror-image.
have physical body, etheric body and astral body, in such a way that
they are portrayed in the physical; that in fact their impression can
be detected in the physical forms. It is not possible to understand
breathing-system, for instance, we find the physical and etheric
metabolic-limb system we have the physical body as such, and the ego,
translated into the physical — an image of the formation of
latent condition, behaves externally in the physical world like the
between the soul-spiritual and the bodily-physical, and how therefore
to make the transition from the soul-spiritual to the bodily-physical.
physical-bodily we experience natural necessity. As things are seen
ourselves. What outside is physical process, chemical process, is
contra-physicalisation, contra-chemicalisation. If we try to grasp the
dissolve the physical synthesis, the chemical synthesis, to analyse it

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ordinary way — physical body, etheric body, astral body
the hours of waking life only. The physical body is closely
physical body which has received its stamp from the etheric
the physical body alone but to the activity of the etheric
body or body of formative forces within the physical body. It
is therefore the living content of the physical and etheric
birth to death his physical body and etheric body undergo
formation of the physical body, in what comes to expression
physical body — although in reality it is all an
from the developed physical body; the individual is no longer
acquired by the physical body and of what in turn works back
upon the soul from the physical body.
process, just as in the case of the evolution of the physical
from the physical and etheric bodies during sleep. If as well
physical body participates in the vibration of the vocal
astral body and the ego. But by comparison the physical body
physical body in the act of speaking may cause surprise. But
the physical body is doing in acts of speaking, whereas the
with, the etheric body in conjunction with the physical body
speaking is dependent upon the physical sounds. We, as the
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animal — and, in so far as he is a physical being, man
definite configuration, only not clothed in a physical body,
not connected with the physical forces of the Earth, but
with forces of spirit-and-soul just as through the physical
body he is connected with the physical forces of Nature.
human being comes down into physical existence on Earth, the
being elaborates his physical body in particular during the
during sleep from the physical and etheric bodies. Every
out of the physical and etheric bodies. In the child,
especially in the earliest period of physical life on Earth,
and physical body lasts for brief periods only. The
of the Cosmos than the outer, physical life.
outer physical existence on Earth man lives in contact with
permeates the physical world and is connected with it. Let us
physical body but yet are not of a purely super-sensible
the physical world man takes from the kingdoms of nature the
foodstuffs for his physical and etheric bodies, so, from the
of weaving tones. That which here in the physical world is
material substance is made manifest in physical colour and
physical sound. But whereas material substance holds the
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physical and etheric bodies. Because in his physical and
physical and etheric bodies so that it forms, as it were, a
through with the help of the physical and etheric bodies.
physical and etheric environment, things which happen in
are caused by him. Thus we must speak of a physical and
etheric environment, a physical and etheric world inhabited
different from that of the physical and etheric world.
the physical world is our environment when we are awake. You
how the realms of the physical and etheric world, the
towards our physical and etheric environment, we perceive the
two worlds which permeate one another: the physical and
physical and etheric world with the help of science and
view of the physical and etheric world and its history. Now
our viewpoint not in the physical and etheric world but in
world was reflected in the world of the physical senses.
physical and an etheric body. We might say that man removes
out of my physical and etheric bodies; I interweave my
endowed with physical senses must be included when the most
feeling was then perceived by him outside his physical body

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physics becomes natural philosophy it indulges in the
direction — all this is the physical, the historical
physical make-up as a reflection of the super-sensible
the physical man as he stands on Earth was worked upon, in

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child must first develop his physical nature, must first lay

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from the spiritual into the physical world. This living
developing his physical body; then comes the point where he
ether-world which, as well as the physical world, is all
processes operating in the physical body of the human being
In physical
it is the same in the physical world too.
longer understand the physical world around him.
and the plants growing out of it. We know that the physical
physical body of the plant.
which have a physical body and an etheric body in their
established firmly enough in the physical body of his brain.
gall-flies. And even in the physical sphere, this appendage
it again, he will again perceive how physical thinking is
relation of physical man — the apparently physical man
for he is really not a physical man alone, being permeated
other aspects of the physically manifested world, as we have

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troubled them, would almost have given them physical pain;
physical pain. To ‘prove’— that would be
particular configuration of the physical body of man when he
forms his physiognomy and the whole physical expression of
physical human being. — That was the very first
man in the physical sphere; we give over the corpse to the
come to an end in some such way as foretold by physical
will not come to a purely physical end; its end will come in
connects the moral world of soul with the physical world of
moral sphere as being entirely independent of the physical.
physical-material realm and of how the future of the physical

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is soul-spiritual is imprinted in the bodily physical. Now you
thinks with the soul-spiritual element, then the bodily physical
ordinary physical brain, and then one becomes only an imprint of
physical body; they bring forth with the physical body an
to die in the soul along with physical death. That is the truth
subconscious yearning, to conclude life with physical death. As
life to conclude with physical death. All those human beings,
striving to be obliterated in physical death. Even if in their
death, their subconscious strives to be obliterated in physical
subconscious yearning that he will be destroyed by physical
death, then he will be destroyed by physical death. Then what is
soul-spiritual in the physical human being, if he has not first
supra-physical human being, with the human beings who live here
he will only see the physical body, not the soul-spiritual

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time when we were already down in the physical world.
conception or birth, into the physical existence. He comes down
out of supersensible worlds into his earthly, physical, sensory
spiritual-physical beings, just that which is intimately with the

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interchange between waking and sleeping, that the physical and
bodies go outside. The soul and spirit go out of the physical
his physical body, more into his physical body.
physical body when man sleeps. Which was the case in ancient
spirit seize the physical body more than in waking, and that
dived still deeper into his physical body, and in deep sleep
And these people ascribed to the Influence of their physical
the physical body which does not leave the soul free enough to
spiritual being, and as a spiritual being, lived in a physical
saw as physical body.
spiritual soul in that dwelling house of the physical body. And
sleep, as we say, when we are in our physical bodies as
physical body as ancient humanity did when asleep; because
must learn to come out of his physical body in a waking

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independent. A whole series of physical processes take place in
being physical. Speaking symbolically, we could say that light
extent. At present I shall not describe the physical and
place in a purely physical instrument, in a kind of camera
place in the eye and bring them to manifestation in a physical
instrument. So, we see that something akin to a physical
physical process takes its course unconsciously in man,
physically
outside continues, so to speak, into our physical body; this is
for a certain inner condition even of the physical body.
physical lung but a finer part, the etheric part of the lung.
perceives; however, inasmuch as it contains the physical lung
of the external physical world, its light and color, so do we
our materialistic age someone who is accustomed to physical

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there in the intensity it was to physical sight. When we
something in the physical world, we arrive at a quite
this is man as he appears to physical sight (drawing on the
visible to physical sight, just as that part of man ceases to
said that where physical man has arms spiritual beings have
physical — muscles, flesh, bones — ceases to be
find the transition from the physical aspect of man to the
to inspired cognition, the physical aspect of the eye
perceives with his physical organs and develops his mental
pictures — i.e., his thoughts — from the physical
When I form a mental picture of a physical object and then
This means that when we have a physical perception and form a
physical percept and what we now perceive is the reality that
of the physical perception. And this reality is the soul.
today you have physically before you a human being and you see
off, externally the physical body continually falls away;
the physical substance most deeply embedded in you will have
of your physical body gradually comes to the surface and falls
physical flakes off and disappears. Anyone with sound common
the physical world to what is reality and not image. A real
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present before us as physical man.
conditioned by the physical organization and can now be
astral body enters man's physical body. You will always find
physical organism, a body built up of solid matter. That
as well as between their physical counterparts which are the
you have the physical body as such, then the fluid body, which
is also physical but differentiated from the solid physical
body. The fluid physical body has an intimate connection
that in the various physical constituents of man we have a
body when he descends from spiritual worlds into the physical
But as man takes hold of his physical body he also takes
ether from the cosmos. He can unite with the physical body,
body of man we bring with us when we take hold of the physical
physical man.
this is the physical body (see drawing) in which the physical
dives down into his physical body the fluid part of the
physical body. You see, it is very significant to realize that
Breathing appears to be an out and out physical process because
cerebral fluid, that is, within the physical body itself, the
breathing we find a different situation. The physical
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in the physical heart as in the etheric and astral heart. At
which man prizes so highly on the physical plane — his
the spiritual world before he descended into physical
the physical; it remains more separate. Therefore, when the
physical environment; in the head we grasp the external
physical world. We grasp ourselves when we look through the
physical is to be found there; in the head you are yourself
physical. Yet the brain is the main field of research for
physical sight. Let us for the moment disregard the fact that
brain, is the mediator of the external physical knowledge
Everything that is perceptible in the external physical world comes
within the sun. We are within the external physical-etheric
our physical and etheric bodies. We do this from falling asleep
As human beings we are born into the physical world. Before
connection with the external physical sun, only with the
spiritual behind the sun. We then descended into the physical
of — what the sun makes physically visible. The physical
falling asleep, we are out there among the physical
because during earthly life we are adapted to our physical body
other side of the sun. In physical life we are this side of the
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physics or chemistry has become an altar. I have often spoken
that which again and again brings man into the physical
the physical and must be approached with a different kind of

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture VI: The Formation of the Etheric and the Astral Heart
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the physical body. Therefore, it can be said that the change of
physical embodiment, we see him as a being of soul and spirit
descended to unite with what was prepared as physical body in
the maternal organism. We unite with this physical body in
in order to penetrate a physical body.
Before man approaches his physical body, or rather the embryo,
characteristic of the physical world we live in here, is that
earthly intellect. Yet everything in the physical world is
himself with the physical world, through the embryo, he draws
man, at the moment when he is uniting himself with the physical
and more with his physical body. Though they fade a little they
structure the physical heart, with its blood vessels, is
without inwards. It forms a center within which the physical
approaches the physical organism a kind of etheric heart, a
forces of the physical body. But this etheric heart which man
can really be compared with the change of teeth in the physical
soon after his entry into the physical world, that is, when we
world from a realm that can be neither the physical nor the
structures living in the astral body slip into the physical
body, which man brings with him into physical existence through
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physical world and we are conscious that if we attempt to
is aware of himself within the physical world he quite rightly
not feel himself living between birth and death in the physical
down — not into the physical qualities of things — but
physical body with our soul and unite ourselves with what lives
physical body through inflicting pain and all kinds of
physical body. But whenever the ascetic suppressed some
function of the body by means of physical pain, his spirit-soul
physical organism between birth and death in accordance

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within the physical-soul-spiritual being of man something comes
sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology which are pursued
one has in mind their physical aspect only, when speaking about
how the physical substances within them are either combined or
counting them as one would on the physical plane is no use; nor
must be cured. However, as so many cures are needed, physical
in the sky is not merely the physical sun, but that with the
how far or how deeply our sophisticated sciences of physics and
chemistry and physics have no value whatever beyond the earth.
already mentioned, whatever physical laws are discovered,

Title: Human Soul/Evolution: Lecture IX: The Contrasting World-Conceptions of East and West
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red, penetrate the physical and etheric bodies. It would be
physical and etheric bodies lying on the bed and simply drew
that — when the physical organs and limbs are here
is separated from his physical and etheric bodies (red).
their influence even in the organic processes in the physical
assume that the physical nature of his body was the same and
and willing, and in regard to his etheric-physical
the instance I mentioned earlier of how the physical
into the physical organization. In consequence, what had
physical. Thus, it can be said that the belief in ghosts is the
something that can be seen with physical eyes. Western man
not have his physical body about him) man was in such a
his physical body and man has now entered into such a

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senses penetrate the physical sense world. What the spiritual
in a chemistry or physics laboratory, or in a hospital, has
belong to physical man, for the senses are physical organs
imbedded in the physical body. What man's physical body
physical man. In him what the ancients considered as philosophy
experienced in the physical body but in a human organization
that permeates the physical body as etheric man.
present-day science we really know only physical man. We do not
physical body and in which the Greek philosopher experienced
his philosophy. In the physical body we experience breathing,
and the process of seeing. But just as we have this physical
an etheric man. When we look at the physical body we see
something of the breathing process; physically and
physically in breathing and seeing — philosophy came into
physical body, so the Greek never doubted that what he
powerful, solid and material than his present physical body.
anything about what is now his physical body, just as modern
perception, for it is in the etheric, not in the physical body,
member of the whole cosmos. As physical man, however, he cannot
physical man between birth and death belongs directly to the
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the physical organism. In the dream conception itself one never
are becoming entirely independent of the physical
“When I think in the physical organism I am making use of
course in the physical organism, but, because of its
Without the physical organism the thinking of ordinary
therefore, is bound to the physical organism. Just as we
with the help of the physical organism, we also see clearly
are set free of the physical body. Now, a picture world is
physical organism and continues in the purely etheric —
earth and clothed itself in a physical and etheric body. Man
organism that leaves physical man at death and lives on further
As man has the physical cosmos before him by means of his
spiritual cosmos; only, what within his physical and etheric
this organism, ensheathed by the physical and etheric
is merely hereditary in the physical and etheric organisms and
earthly world and only clothes itself in the physical and
spiritual world into his physical existence.
the physical organism on the waves of breathing and the other
researcher's physical and etheric organisms. That happens
physical and etheric organisms. The will that otherwise is
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physical body; a different activity from that of thinking,
feeling, or exercising my will within the physical body.”
lives in a world separated from one's physical
physical organism takes on a relative objectivity. Man looks
within his physical body out upon external objects. But what
unconscious, or perhaps physical elements had played into
physical and etheric organisms. There, they would unite with
super-sensible thinking man would alter his physical and
to interfere with his physical or etheric organism. Both of
unaltered physical body. It has remained as it was; this
With this etheric thinking you feel quite outside your physical
physical organism. A person who has correctly brought about
disappears, to be able to return into the physical body and see
being in the physical body and being outside it in the
physical and etheric organisms. Then man will really attain an
called forth in his physical organism when he uses it for
this way is mirrored in our physical and etheric organisms in
a physical sense cosmos.
other facts of the physical sense world. Now that he is able to
the cosmos to what he experienced through his physical body as
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physical organism of man owes to hereditary development,
that is to say what are the persistent factors in his physical
inheritance and ancestors who gave him his physical
between what is passed on in the continuing stream of physical
consciousness that no longer has before it the physical
physical and etheric organisms. For this consciousness, the
soul-spiritual world before it descended into a human physical
physical substance transmitted to it with conception. One
disregarding not only its own physical body and its
physical man. As we are referred back to the living man when we
relate what man experiences here in his physical body to the
within physical earth-existence. To acquire inspired knowledge
releasing his own soul-spiritual nature from his physical as
outside his physical and etheric organisms. He comes to
Through death, the physical and etheric organisms are cast off.
instead of within one's physical body. Man actually finds
otherwise here in earth life he is within his physical and
physical death — one also learns to perceive what
insight into what is also working in his physical and etheric
plant, so little can an observation of man's physical and
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after-effects of sleep. His physical and etheric organizations,
physical and etheric bodies, which he has when awake, man has a
physical and etheric organisms as upon an object. Just as he
the physical and etheric organisms underlie what might be
physical and etheric organizations in the systems of breathing
live in the physical and the etheric body and work into waking
and ego organizations are outside the physical and etheric
They are experienced by the soul outside the physical and
etheric organisms. But within the sleeping physical body the
a physical body, who always live in a super-sensible existence
as opposed to the physical life of man. The human soul in sleep
circulation, and thus in man's physical and etheric
confronts him by day, for the life functions of the physical
our physical consciousness we experience the physical sense
are merely the reflected physical images of certain spiritual
single stars. In sleep, the soul, being free of the physical
enters a physical body through conception and embryonic
his physical and etheric organizations in sleep, if this
his physical and etheric bodies again? What impulse is at
reflection in our physical world is the moon. Indeed, the
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VI - The Transition from the Soul-Spiritual Existence in Human Development to the Sensory-Physical
that man in his physical sense life experiences himself in his
physical and etheric bodies and considers their organs as his
outer world his physical and etheric bodies, which
physical body exists in man's astral and ego nature. This is
to the physical and etheric bodies naturally is connected with
that the reason why a man wants to return into his physical and
world and prior to his having taken on his physical body. When
no such relation to a physical and etheric body is possible,
Such a physical-etheric organism is not present in pre-earthly
physical human organism with which man must clothe
of everything earthly man possesses as his physical
physical-material organs — spread out into cosmic
When I say that man experiences his future physical organism as
another for physical existence. In the latter one means
say that the cosmic germ of man's physical body is experienced
one does here in the physical world. Everything is
man's physical organism.
cosmos as we perceive it from the physical world; he has a
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physical earth. If we want to place before our souls the very
point to a physical reality. Just as we know, when we see a
physical being with colors and shapes, that it is a physical
physical is out there, so did a man of the past know that he
bestowed by that spiritual being whose physical image is the
physical sun we see in the sky.
look up to the sun, but this outer, physical sun is only an
death concerned only the physical human organism. He knew of
life descended into his physical organism. For him, death was
He whose physical reflection is the physical sun, this
man Jesus. He took on a physical body in order not only to
in their physical sense consciousness through historical
full clarity in the inner soul experience, man's physical
its foundation in man's physical organism, and man learned to
physical organism can be experienced by the soul. No
attention exclusively to his physical body and showed how this
extent, it had become an experience of the physical organism.
but they come from the physical body. This body disintegrates
physical death could leave him. By these means, it was possible
use of ego consciousness. In this stage, the physical
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kind of a relationship man acquires in regard to his physical
whole soul to be outside the physical organization. To a
physical organization. Everything that has occurred since
birth in the physical body as growth was produced in it
to this experience. Just as a real, physical object cannot
what he has in mind. Matters pertaining to the physical world
therefore, he always takes hold of his physical body. That
the physical organism, it slips right into it. This unconscious
physical organism and makes use of it. Then, as imaginative
Something is reflected back to us from our physical body, and
actually passes to begin with from ordinary, physical reality
insight into the physical body. He sees it as a reflecting
for it is not until his physical body becomes for him an
certainly not present in his physical body. If, therefore, he
have his physical body outside himself and view it as
human being relates to the corporeal-physical. Not until he can
objectively survey the physical organization, the etheric body
unity of the physical and soul nature at age nine or ten. He
physical organism so that the body can reflect the thoughts
with the soul's relationship to the physical body in normal
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physical organization. In a certain respect, man's astral
organization and ego being are outside his physical body during
of the physical body. When man is awake in earthly life,
completely united with the physical organism. They are active
in the physical corporeality. During sleep, the soul's own
into ordinary consciousness which the physical body reflects as
to the physical organization in the same manner in which man
unaware of them, he actively permeates his physical organism
Because man actively penetrates his physical body, because his
and the ego being — affect the physical organism with
specific way. For the purely physical activity which then
reflected images thrown by the physical body back into the
being is reflected during waking life onto the physical body.
Through its senses, the physical body carries the effects of
the outer world into the physical inner being; the phenomena of
all this is reflected as thoughts in the physical organism, and
does the soul actually do to the physical organism so that
firmly in mind that the physical organism really prevents the
it works in the physical head organization of man. It turns out
human etheric body alone were to penetrate the physical
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the physical and etheric organisms.
organization. The head organization forms a physical and
must seek it in its replica in the physical and etheric
the real domain for the physical part of a science of the soul,
same way to the physical and etheric organisms, neither has it
physical and etheric organisms, nor does it become involved in
from the physical and etheric parts of man's organism. It has
kind of surrendering of the willing-soul to the physical
physical and etheric bodies in response to a certain stimulus.
human organization for the physical body. Subconsciously,
the soul-spiritual world into a physical-etheric organism. In
the physical organism; its activity cannot unfold since it
the physical organization, but the tendency remains. Now, the
accustomed on earth to live in a physical organization
consciousness and has the desire to form a new physical
views the physical corporeality and the soul and spirit, and
around us in the physical world — the mineral, plant, and
being. Since, in physiology and anatomy, physical science is
Critics who rely merely on physical science today still claim
base their ideas and their work on physical science alone. But
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arranged entirely according to the thinking of the physical
plane and it is just these thoughts of the physical plane that
arranged from the standpoint of the physical plane and with the
methods of the physical plane. They must be arranged only from
physical plane should experience something of the thoughts and
thinking, the ordinary judgments applied to the physical world.
physical plane must be maintained. That goes without saying.
and does not hold good for the physical plane. I will start
the physical plane we are accustomed through our thinking,
and beings of the physical plane and the processes connected
behaviour and conduct on the physical plane. Nothing we thus
physical body, serves us in the remotest degree — in the
form in which it is practised on the physical plane — for
for example, to know something about the physical world,
to know about the things of the physical world — this can
it be remembered, therefore, that in the physical world
belonging to the physical world, no matter how astutely, gives
connection with things of the physical world. In order to be
The activities that are normally carried out in the physical
physical plane. Only when we have transformed our soul-forces
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Living in the ordinary physical world, the things are reflected
by our physical organism, by its sensory system, by its
our physical organism — which is an erroneous conception
comparison, of course, with the physical world. We see them
far, far more strongly than to those of the physical plane: it
different from those of the physical world. ... The next stage
be heard by the physical ear, nor perceived with physical sight
be like a delusion on the physical plane if I were to meet a
will not occur; a human being is recognised on the physical
plane. When I meet a Mr. X on the physical plane, I need not
than is ever demanded on the physical plane. Suppose someone
were to publish a book on the physical plane and were to demand
cases are always connected with the physical plane and with
something that has happened on the physical plane. They may be
with the physical life.
physical plane. That is not enough. We must be able to plunge
the physical world. In the physical world we feel enclosed
physical Zodiac or with the seven physical planets. That is not
Whenever, on the physical plane, we want to get to know
physical world is something that is not at all real, it is just

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nothing of such pictures but only the pictures of the physical
confronts an object with ordinary physical eyes and ordinary
mental activity, not only is he within the physical object
spiritual Beings who are not physically incarnate. He is really
pictures, we were to pass back again into the physical body, if
the physical body everything with which we had become one
by the skin, and we should immediately destroy the physical
physical body. We may not carry into the physical body that
into our physical body because that would always mean the germ
draw ourselves out of the physical world and pass into the
in the physical world). You have gone through this as a
is outside the physical body. But then we also know how it has
a being of the physical plane, our own being, to begin with.
we belong to the environment of the physical beings around us.
here, in the physical world, in order that we may be able to
while you live in your physical body can be perceived only in
a natural part of life on the physical plane. I will ignore the
it is with most things, at least on the physical plane. It is
made by making the physical world a motive for a kind of occult
physical world, that we do not find in ourselves, but only find
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it is just the same as when a man on the physical plane cannot
physical life. Just as this continuity of experience has to be
maintained in normal physical life, so the connecting thread
only gradually learn to understand because in the physical
Starting from the ordinary physical consciousness, we have a
certain basic feeling which is quite natural to this physical
him just as on the physical plane I can seek another human
just as in the physical world we must not forget what we did
physical evolution. There we find the Archai in their essential
Time, which are his in the physical world. He does not only go
Time known to him as a physical being, but when he has ‘taken
— Ego and astral body are outside the physical and
physical and etheric bodies when, during life between birth and
most easily by taking the physical body in the same way as we
have taken the etheric body with its ‘vowels.’ The physical
the twelve-foldness of the physical body as we have experienced
a man who is conscious outside his physical and etheric bodies,
the life-process which makes us living beings. The physical
within and we use our physical and etheric bodies to make us
the beings we are on the physical plane. But when, in the sense
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consciousness. To ordinary consciousness our physical body is a
the delicate, subtle movements of the human physical body
appearance of the physical body to a level with the soul. Soul
the body in its physical substance appears more like the
quite different spheres. First, I showed how the physical body
thought-world resembling experience in the physical body.
the bodily-physical the two becoming more alike. It is as
physical life generally, were spiritualised
flitting through us physical processes are at work. These
physical body, whereas in willing the ego is only driven out of
physical body.
action parts of the ego are outside the regions of the physical
the soul-life to its physical counterpart, without being

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considered by those who give these tests today as a very great physicist — as I think you
outer organism, entirely what may be counted as the physical instrument of man, what is purely

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physical man — not the soul-being (see Head in diagram 1) — not perhaps seeing him
time of what I am now saying. I shall therefore omit all that concerns the physical and lower
a more direct connection with the world of soul-and-spirit than physical man stands in connection
with his physical environment. Towards his physical perceptible environment physical man is
rather an isolated being; one might even say that physical man of the senses is really shut up
is swimming and hovering towards the human physical face: yellow, green, orange; green running
physical that take place principally in the activity of the digestion and so forth, where
But from this we see that for physical life here on
the next incarnation (and this organism is but an image, everything physical being an image of

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fact they are present for man's physical sense-perception.
through incarnation in a physical human body. Many such direct impressions are received by
returns to a physical body, when souls are so spiritualised that they do not descend to earth any

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individual facts which can be outwardly observed in the physical world but, out of an
behind the sensible-physical facts, and it is in real spiritual forces such as these that the
the stream of physical-sensible facts lie the driving spiritual forces. But everywhere in
being as a physical being moves and acts. And it was also not contained in that time in which our
this space in which physical things are extended and move, and beyond this time in which our
the human being by virtue of having clothed his soul-and-spirit nature with a physical and
soul-and-spirit nature in a physical body, comes the inner comprehension of the 'I'. This is why
to give every future metaphysics
which has a claim to being truly scientific, a metaphysics for what in his way of thinking can be

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what comes from the spiritual world and plays into our physical world will take such a course
action of spiritual powers working into the physical life of humanity on earth. But precisely
repeated lives on earth. In reality these are human bodies with a physical, etheric and astral
the physical world. For one who can observe life with a certain accuracy, people of this kind
conception and birth, we come into physical existence — and to turn human beings more or
being from taking full possession of his physical body, hinders him from finding a connection

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and at everything in the physical-sense world that expresses itself out of these spiritual
take the trouble to confront and come to terms with the external physical world of the
element, the old traditions would be superimposed: in fact only the physical and the soul element
anything which goes beyond the physical-sense life. Instead of a real teaching on the spirit you
the sense-world — for our physical world — soul and spirit should be made manifest by

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over to instincts, to the sensible-physical — and the other possibility — that of
senses, to the world of instincts, of desires, he is given over to his bodily-physical nature and
(Metaphysics and Anthropasophy in their Position Regarding Knowledge of the Supersensible),

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importance were the abilities, the forces, brought by the human being into physical existence
for human beings, for this is what they brought into the physical world through the blood. And
being was only recognized in relation to what he was as a physical being. Now the other element
seven years in which the human being develops the physical body, are not significant for what he
not the same as the physical world. Thus it is not possible to gain a perception of the spiritual
world by abstracting from the physical but only by direct spiritual investigation. These
know when he knows only the physical world. People who, out of complacency, wish only to know of
the physical world call it fantastic to talk about Old Moon, Old Sun and Old Saturn. They find
abilities that correspond to this old form. Today no one can be proud of being a physicist, a

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this physical world came remnants of the experiences in those spiritual worlds. (I am still
bear witness to the will of the spiritual world with regard to the physical world. It was human
less, of what is brought into the physical world at birth from the spiritual worlds. Certainly
that this Christ-force was able to stream into the physical world for the believers was subject
something to be understood as one understands things of the physical plane. After all, with an
event on the physical plane one cannot understand why it ought to be described in four different
spirit, where they are read in the same way one reads an account of the physical plane, they
— could be found in the child, who brought it with him into the physical world from the
super-physical human being. I said yesterday that the Mid-European was cut off by Turkey and by
People, of course, picture this purely physically.

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then that he descended from spiritual heights; that he lived, before he entered into physical
physical existence. To be aware theoretically that one has passed through a spiritual life of
what has been implanted in his blood and in his other organs by physically-inherited
physical existence.
that what the human being bears today as his physical body is
actual spirit-man. These will have to be elaborated in the human being, just as physical body,
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
etheric body and physical body — but, as earthly man, he cannot achieve this. He has to say
will create a mood to which the cosmos responds. Just as the physical Christ appeared at the time
time of the Mystery of Golgotha, He spoke to him physically.
physical being. The new experience of the Christ will arise out of the attunement

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which are called, from the aspect of the physical world, destructive
processes I pointed out that, from the aspect of the physical world,
as far as the physical world is concerned, as a streaming-out toward
For in the physical world consciousness can never arise where sprouting,
what has sprouted in the physical world is in its turn eliminated,
physical world. Indeed, the truth of the matter is that when we perceive
experiences the complete dissolving and separation of the physical and
etheric bodies, the merging of the physical and etheric bodies with the
general physical and the general etheric world, through this, and out of
normal human life, compared to the time which we pass here in the physical
‘By what is the return of a human soul to a new physical
Picture to yourselves that when we enter physical existence we are born
physical existence is dependent on preceding causes, on what took place
physical conditions of the succession of the generations, you will say:
‘When I enter physical existence, and during my education, I
erosion of our physical existence, so there must occur, between death and a

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faculties, because our psychic-Spiritual is reflected on our physical
physical part, and that these processes become a kind of reflective
physical earth-man rightly the apparatus for everything that he has
life on earth, we experience by means of our physical earth-man, but we
earthly man can never again experience with his physical body: it is
of this: All that is physical world on this earth will be destroyed,
from the physical bodies of the earth — nothing new can evolve,
discarded — falls away from the physical earth. (I am now
referring to the physical earth, not to souls). And should anyone
harbour the notion that the physical earth will become transformed, he
as the physicist sees them. Instead, we must think of these atoms as
reality, compared with which the physicist's atom is a very
evolution of the physical, — they always cling to the fact.
Saturn man in us lies the germ for the physical shell of Jupiter, that

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four members — the physical man, the etheric man,
— the union of the physical man with the etheric
far more etheric element than the life of the physical world is from
physical living and weaving for the physical consciousness, but which
cannot be grasped by this physical consciousness, and is generally
and physical bodies what is weaving and living there in sleep. I must
through this (red) the ego living outside the physical body during
physical I will indicate through this (yellow); what of our physical
described should dip down into both the etheric body and the physical
come into our etheric body and physical body when we wake. For what
etheric body and also into our physical body.
as well as our physical body in our waking condition. That I have
absorbed by the physical and etheric bodies when we wake up. This
If that is the physical body (blue) and
etheric body, at most presses against the physical body and
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
exists: Ahriman experiences in our physical body Lucifer's
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its details. We assign our physical body to Saturn, the etheric body

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human body. Hence He could only appear physically upon earth through
physically completely veiled as regards the head. Man carries the
there on the physical plane, takes complete responsibility for his
do this, can refer to someone to be found by name on the physical
there in the physical world, should accept full responsibility for
personalities, who as physical persons are prepared to take full
place and is propagated on the physical plane, a physical personality
spiritual truth into the physical world, who moreover, take full

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back the more one is removed from the external, merely physical
like physical orders. For that is a part of Maya-existence, of

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with what we can call physical operations. On Old Saturn the first
germ of the sense-organs arose as a purely physical rudiment, for the
of the physical into whatever else is forming in man, so that the
sense-organs are today essentially physical organs. You will easily
be able to recognize the eyes, the ears, etc., as physical organs. To
physical-chemical.
physical quality (
). This physical nature of the sense-organs can be
something remains which is entirely physical. So the relationship
sense is, as it were, a thin zone, a thin outer zone of the physical,
this with physical cognition: the eye can be looked on as a camera
physical reciprocal action with the outer world which takes place in
physical sense-zone. But if this were really to be the case in man
then the human being would always have had to wait for the physical
these physical processes with his astral body and ego. He would
into the physical apparatus of the eyes and the same in the case of
through, he takes possession of the physical part of our senses,
We men as physically incarnated beings
in its turn on the physical body. And this working upon the physical
the physical body. It is truly the case that the Real exists
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the origin of the human physical body lies in still more
ancient times, and now, when the physical body has the mineral
from physical, earthly things, man must behold the Divine in

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earth in human physical bodies. Let us remind ourselves as before, of
can be accounted physical forms, what do the dead see of human beings?
all beings no longer possessing a body in which there are physical eyes,
the human figure, portrayed purely according to its physical form is
same way we do for something on the physical plane, then only do we gain
physical body, ether body, astral body and so on; the human being has a
demands to hear in concrete terms about the relationship of the physical
and supra-physical world. And only in permeating ourselves with such
definite ideas of the connection between the physical and the
supra-physical world can we return once again to what in a different

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people felt in those ancient times about the relation of the physical
physical and spiritual worlds.
reality — not something called a physical reality, but it
was the reality, simultaneously the physical and the
which at the same time was a physical empire, is no longer taken into
being God who really physically appeared on earth, the son of heaven
who physically appeared on earth, who was even the father of heaven.
physical reality, something like this would have been unthinkable.
the physical earth was no longer reality. The people of the Middle
ancient times in the Orient men lived on the physical earth who were
physical reality was thought to be spiritual, in the future this
physical reality may no longer be thought of as spiritual.
Nevertheless, the spiritual must be present here in the physical
physical reality. The human being must move around here within the
physical reality, and recognize a spiritual reality, must speak of it

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participates in physical life as though it were the only reality.
reality in addition to the physical reality of the economy.
economic basis of physical life, something which animals do without
for physical existence, then we are prostituting our reason, then we

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stage the things which can be observed in physical life, be they
during the first phase of imperialism here in the physical world the
everything physical was thought of as a reflection, as an image, as a
symbol for what is not actually present in the physical world, but
only illustrated by the persons and deeds in the physical world.
divine power exercised by physical people. In social affairs the only
thing that mattered was the concrete will of a physical person. To
spiritual world in physical institutions, if one spoke of what Saint
physical kingdom. And then one arrives at such definitions as I
which the living physical earth is predominant. In this sector the

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the human being lives on the physical earth animated by his
soul within and he goes around in this physical body until his

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their souls in the spiritual world as people stand in physical
been implanted in him as a physical being on earth between
in the physical world, you would never be able to know whether
what is experienced in the physical world. One must acquire
physical eyes; in our times, when people are completely attuned
world as a physical person, you think about this outer world.
And at the same time you have impressions from the physical
live in reality. Reality accepts you as a physical reality.
that in the physical world the chair is a real chair and not
in the physical world? Because in the physical world your
physical body. You are a threefold human being: a thinking,
within each other by the physical body.
are justifiably satisfied, as far as the physical world is
memory of physical earthly life can reach. He goes back beyond
the threshold of the spiritual world. The physical body ceases
the physical world. And for that it is really necessary that we
physical body. He knows that his legs carry him through the
that carry him through the world. In doing so, he is a physical
physically, he must also commit with his soul to the leading
Just as I must say that for physical health your blood must
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more to my physicality than the tree? Little by little I am
physicality in this incarnation. To feel this deeply and
physically, which to a certain extent lifts us above the

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only human physicality is taken into consideration.
physical body with what is solid, with what is characteristic
this relationship of the human physical body with the earthly,
the physically sighted and for the physically unsighted. Light
is objective. Not only the physically sighted receive it, the
physically unsighted also receive it ... when they think. Because
forget this. If we do, although we continue to live physically
also physical pain. The physical and the mental, matter and
tempt you. This is not the death which we see in the physical

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animals, plants and minerals and also in our physical human
breath circulating there is known as thinking in the physical
physical body. Here is where the Luciferic temptation appears,

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what it means to be outside the physical body with the human I
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
through the attainment of higher knowledge leaving the physical
when outside the physical body the person perceives his
surroundings exactly as he perceives the physical world with
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
behold his own sensory physical being.
in the physical world; here with me you are as your inner being
the other, physical side. He sees himself differently. He sees
person and are only held together in one by the physical body
in the physical world. And what the person sees there resounds
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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newsletter that Dr Wegman sent to the physicians who were thus
earth-life are held together by our physical bodies. Thinking,
feeling and willing are conjoined in physical existence.
physical body.
physical body had held thinking, feeling and willing together,
physical body is not present.
stomach. What we call our organs, what we call the physical
in our physical bodies we look out from here to the sun and
soon as we leave our physical bodies with our thinking, we
experienced: leaving the physical body, expanding throughout
by the physical body, now becomes threefold. And we learn to
physical world, but still lived above in the soul-spiritual
have on earth were alive, but our physical body is the grave in
before we descended to this physical world a living thinking
the physical world. When one looks at man, one sees at first
from the spiritual to the physical world. It is, however, like
at the human heart as the physical imaginative representative

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physician comes with a thermometer; he measures warmth from
measuring of the mere physical extends to the moral:
Here we have the support of man, the physical support. [In the
physical, but permeated with the etheric.
it. We feel our physicality in our spirituality when we measure
gradually extract our souls from our physical bodies and pass
through such an exercise, then the world ceases to be physical
physical in the world is only semblance, maya; the world is
are freed from physical existence, it is as though our thinking
because they already are so due to the physical body being a
falling apart if they were not held together by the physical

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live in a world in which the senses, the whole physical
experiencing the physical sensory world to experiencing the
common sense from physicality and the senses to be able to
that due to our wearing a physical body we are directly related
the physical substances of the earth just by being born? Why do
end physical life once my organism is no longer able to process
its physical elements? We must deeply feel our relationship to
our physical environment starting from such a personal enigma.
physical earthly life we are blindly groping in the
to what surrounds us in the physical environment.
star-studded sky with physical eyes, but also in
space. They did not see the constellations which physical eyes
physical eye when it is observing. Plato himself described
then we are no longer in the physical body. We have traveled
it's like when in the physical world someone writes something
only to be in the ordinary world of physical existence —
leave the physical body behind with our thinking, this magical

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news that Miss Maryon* has departed from the physical plane
Miss Maryon's departure from the physical plane. For now it
intensely during the years with us on the physical plane. She
has departed from the physical plane but certainly not from
the physical plane. Tomorrow, though, when the members, the
But not only that, it also depends on which physical and
held together only because the physical body is a unity. But
and closer to a renewal of the Mysteries. Of course physical,

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are standing on physical ground.

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we believe that we walk with the legs, with the physical
legs, that the physical legs exist for walking.
But within these physical human legs is the human etheric
I-organization [violet]. We don't walk with the physical
especially, the physical body, in order that the
contact with the earth-organization, the physical and the
you have physical legs in order to provide consciousness for
Therefore, when we are not using our physical legs, as in
in a much more agile way than when we move about in physical
consciousness of doing so, because the physical legs provide
clairvoyance? We are able to move, I said, in physical life
because the movement becomes conscious through the physical
higher world through the Thrones, just as in physical life he
is in contact with normal earth life through his physical
voice of conscience. The blood is physical in all the parts
of our bodies; but in that it is physical in all the parts of

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regarding this situation. Man leaves the physical world in
although this sensible-physical world can be wonderful, joyful
physical world. He must say to himself: As wonderful as it
The support of the physical world ends here. He cannot
from the physical, when one — symbolically speaking —
the abyss, outside the physical and etheric bodies —
The moment we leave the physical body — also with the first
fire, air. When you return to the physical world you must
physical world.
of this war can not be written from the physical plane alone.
physical world.
in the physical realm, may not be brought over into the
physical earthly existence, but also not to carry it over to
world with the I-fire of the physical world.
more outside of the physical body — which disposes one

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physical.
When we stand here in the physical world, we feel
we are here with our etheric-physical humanity among the
kingdoms of nature. Just as we must learn to be physical
beings among other physical beings, so must we learn to be
etheric-physical nature. We belong to the three kingdoms of
that in the physical existence within the boundaries of our

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habits which correspond to the physical sense-perceptible
do not appear now as physical forces. The soul has long since
as active physical forces, as gravitational, electrical,

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physical sense-perceptible rainbow's glow are shining in
sisters and brothers, that when we cross over from the physical
is becoming light, and the physical-sensory world, which we have
universe does not only have a physical meaning; it has a
discerned from within the physical-sensory world; we can discern
when the physical image which the sun casts, disappears; for
In reality rays are not physical. In reality it is the spirit

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us by minerals, by plants, by animals, by physical human beings;

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back to the physical-sensory world of the earth and humbly
absorb everything that takes place in the physical-sensory

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means of conception and birth into a physical human earthly
and interweaves and acts in our physical earthly body.
physical below; only when we feel these opposing powers, who

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actual self. Behind us is the glowing, sunlit physical reality,

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physical science — is born from the fluid element. Solid
are our true helpers in physical existence. The Guardian of the

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descended to physical-sensory existence. He showed us how our
death in order to understand the things of the physical-sensory
before we descended into physical-sensory earthly
which our earthly-physical thinking is rooted — between
physical existence. Then, when we have willingly descended into
if we think about what we are willing in the physical-sensory

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the physical human form, in human souls, in human spirits, what
humanity as it unfolds between birth and death in the physical
we had as physical persons have abandoned us — we say to
world, from the world of physical reality in which we are
should then intensely feel how our heart, the physical
us over from the One to the Three. In the physical world, we

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human being, what he is during his physical incarnation, over
force of remembrance - as one does when retaining a physical
over there, not the physical human figure, but at the spiritual
we will realize that at the moment we are brought into physical

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