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Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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four members of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. He will also come to
the astral body, is always able to permeate the physical body. Thus, the
undirected by the astral body, the physical body executes movements on
of the astral body working through the etheric.
involuntary actions, the control of the astral becomes increasingly
control of his astral over his etheric body.
that is due to an insufficient control of the ego over the astral body. Some
is, strength of the ego over the astral body. If we subject ourselves to this
astral body was presented here in two recent lectures
is important because in this way the control of the ego over the astral
The control of the ego over the astral body is also strengthened when we
strengthen the influence of the ego over the astral body, the astral body
The astral body is the carrier of feelings, instincts, etc.,
physical, etheric, and astral body.

Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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astral body (see Note 1).
as well as his physical body are inter-penetrated by his astral
body. We must not see only one side but also perceive the astral
human astral body. A portion of the spiritual light that permeates
the cosmic realm lives within the astral body. It is, however,
astral body, which, in turn, is permeated by the ego. It has often
possess an astral body and hence the inner light. Now, the function
disintegration is part of the activity of the astral body. There is
astral body takes care that the food a man consumes is constantly
the physical body, the astral body, in which the ego is
the astral body does when it dissolves the substances assimilated
comes about through the astral body's processes of dissolution.
the expression of the activity originating from the astral body.
astral body become master of the physical and etheric bodies. When
weight in him and hinders his urge to let the astral body come to
full life. Thus, the astral body's inner flexibility comes up
organism, since the animal also possesses an astral body. Even
though the animal astral body causes the dissolution of the
the characteristics of his astral body, he must strive to utilize
and activate his astral body in such wise that the plant processes
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Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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human being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body,
became permeated with the astral body upon the Moon. Not only
has the astral body been added to the physical body, but the physical
astral body during the. Moon-epoch, whereas the Ego is gradually
develops first of all within the astral body, then within the etheric
jump out elastically into the world when the astral body and the Ego
ether of the universe. When our astral body and our Ego lay aside our
contemplate from a similar standpoint man’s astral body. We
You see, our astral
body is the whole ANIMAL KINGDOM. Our astral body is, instead, the
would now have to speak to you of the astral body in connection with
contained in the astral body. And again, we find that if nothing else
upon our astral body, if during the time between death and a new
except the fact that the astral body is discarded, then the astral
follow its own elasticity. The astral body would really take on
our astral body, also the Spirits of Movement, the Spirits of Wisdom,
freed the astral body from its connection with earthly existence,
then the astral body will contain the results of a work, results that
astral body as a result of the work of the Spirits of Form, the
astral body. And then comes the time — it begins with that
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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body, ethereal body, astral body and Ego;’ he will behave in
works in such a way as to strengthen the control of the astral body
the right, he will strengthen the control of his astral body over his
command of the Ego over the astral body. Some people cannot bring
the Ego over the astral body.
means of strengthening the control of the Ego over the astral body is to
it greatly strengthens the control of the Ego over the astral body.
to strengthen the control of the I over the astral body is to dismiss
it is for the strengthening of the Ego in its control of the astral
practices we strengthen the influence of the Ego over the astral
body, of the astral body over the ethereal, and of the ethereal body

Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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astral plane, that world which is immediately beyond our own,
no longer holds true, for, in the astral world, there is
eternal movement. If you observe the astral body of man,
his passions, etc., you will see that this astral body of man
there are other Beings which whirl about on the astral plane.
Their astral bodies do not form part of the physical body,
astral plane is the continual manifestation of the inner
difficult position if we were to apply to the astral plane
of their own, no astral body and no Ego. But this is true
etheric body, we must ascend to the astral plane: there, its
becomes astrally clairvoyant, he is able to see the etheric
body of the mineral — there, on the astral plane
we find that the mineral has also an astral body. This body
cannot be found, however, upon the astral plane, but must be
body, there, in the astral world. Yet it would not be
everything of an astral nature must be found upon the astral
natural to look for the astral element upon the astral plane
the physical plane, so the astral body of the mineral does
not live on the astral plane but in lower Devachan. We must
but where are we to look for the astral body of the plant? We
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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body and the astral body; our innermost, our ego, is hidden within
and which has also transformed the astral body. For these three
upwards into the astral body, and downwards into the physical body;
that is to say, the ether body has an influence both on the astral
compact; it so transforms the astral body that it no longer develops
him a world of images. Of course it was the forces of the astral body
which called forth these images, but the astral body would not have
astral body does not of itself see images. Just as a man does not see
himself advancing unless a mirror confronts him, so the astral body
by the astral body. What man perceives of the goings-on in his own
astral body is what is mirrored for him by his ether body. If all our
inner astral processes were not reflected by our ether bodies we
should of course still have the astral body's activity within
world. What the world brings about in the astral body would not open
the third member, the astral body itself. This is the element in us
ether body. Knowledge is kindled in the astral body; it is
an image, is kindled in the astral body; we have these in us because
we have astral bodies. But these thoughts and images become conscious
of knowledge is kindled in the astral body; this torch is reflected
which is kindled in the astral body has changed in the course of the
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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constitutes what we call the astral body. In this way, having the
microcosmic substance, the astral body, we can give an answer in
astral body ... we can then ask ourselves what corresponds without
in the widths of space to the astral body — what fills all
astral body extends throughout our microcosm, so is the universal
macrocosmic counterpart of our astral body, and we can also say that
counterpart of our astral body. In us we have the astral body, it
the astrality from which, as from the cosmic womb, is born the
thought of as Zeus, and which is the cosmic counterpart of our astral
distinguished from the forces of the astral body — the former
us and then disappears, belongs to the astral body; every habitual,
expression of will-impulses as the astral body is the expression of
nature of his being into astral, etheric and physical bodies. The
that physical, etheric and astral bodies were distinguished. Now that
sense of taste, for he knows that the astral body and the etheric
astral and etheric man, one has a different taste from what one has
The astral body can
sense of taste. In the case of the astral body the sense of taste is
Knowledge of one's own astral body has to be described in quite
relate his self-knowledge solely to his astral body — that is
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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forces found in man's astral body as transplanted into cosmic
man as consisting of physical, etheric, astral, and also of the ego
come into the sphere of Poseidon, and the forces of the astral body
the forces of the astral body, transplanted into the universe, so we
that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became
astral spheres have become permeated through and through by Him. This

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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the macrocosmic representative of the astral forces at work in man,
astral bodies, their counterpart outspread in space ... was once
soul-forces concentrated in our astral bodies.’ If clairvoyant
the soul-forces in the human astral body.’ The same thing
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
physical, etheric and astral bodies, for they had been fully
astral bodies needed in order that Earth evolution might be rightly
developed when man's highest member was his astral body. We
developed physical, etheric and astral bodies, man bore in his astral
itself with the astral Zeus forces. Grafted upon the Zeus forces as
in the astral and Zeus forces, and if in what then emerges, and is at
lived in him, side by side with what was in his astral body as the
Zeus forces, Persephone.’ Man had brought over this astral
on Earth was like! He felt, ‘I have in my astral body. ... I
Zeus forces in his astral body with the Persephone forces. What came
ancient times man bore in him from the side of Zeus his astral body,
soul-forces anchored in the astral body. These soul-forces have come
her union with Zeus — with the forces of the astral body. Thus

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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body, astral body and ego. Our being consists of these four members.
not just to the astral plane but to the highest region of Spirit-
in the flames of the astral world. Semele bears witness to this human
arisen under the influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies,
physical, etheric and astral bodies, he wondered what they would look
had not been drawn into the physical, etheric and astral bodies, how
man, purely under the influence of astral, etheric and physical
astral bodies. They said to themselves: ‘Dionysos and his rout
influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies, that is, as a man
etheric and astral bodies. These are the satyrs and Sileni who follow
physical, etheric and astral bodies of a man could be so treated that

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 7
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astral body and ego, it can come to no viable theory of knowledge.
ego through the astral body down to the etheric body. As far as its
etheric and astral bodies and so on.’ It is there that
again into etheric body, astral body and ego. And it is these images

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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turn our clairvoyant gaze, we find the astral body very strongly
Baptism by John in the Jordan, of the physical, etheric and astral
the head, but astral currents are also present in this stream. If one
substances of man's astral body. A substance streams from heart
astral body of man are present. Now the brain is a most remarkable
peculiar quality. It arrests the astrality which rises up, prevents
the astral current from passing through it, while it does allow the
current, but not for the astral one. The astral current is arrested
astral currents rising upwards from the body spread out in the brain
all, or only to a very small extent. These upward astral currents
for the external astral substantialities which are always around us
in the astral substance of the Earth. Hence the astral body of man in
astralities, out of the astrality which continually streams towards
us from the cosmos, and the astrality in the human body which comes
up from below and is attracted by the outer astrality.
Thus the astral body
made of astral substance — a cap which we wear all the time. We
have in the region of the head an astral covering consisting of the
and the outer astralities. The rays of the etheric body pass through
this astral hood or cap, since they are not arrested by the brain,
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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astral body, brings it to a standstill, and lets the images of this
astral body, because they are not allowed to pass through our brain,
clairvoyant times it was not only the images of the astral body that
Old Moon as astral body remains subconscious; it lights up in the
we encounter what is in us as astral, etheric and physical bodies,
is there below in his astral, etheric and physical natures. Together
etheric and astral bodies in all their parts have been assembled by
particular use of the right hand. Thus it is the etheric and astral

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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term consciousness could develop in it; nor could an astral body,
from without that they could take into themselves astral bodies and
during the Moon evolution the rudiments of an astral body. What was
of astrality. Everything which has being has astrality. To infuse the
advance to the animal, to the astral stage. But because all the time,

Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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fluctuating energies of our astral bodies and our egos, constitutes a
physical body is quite different in sleep, when the astral body with

Title: Genesis: Lecture VI
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astral worlds, in a higher sense also belongs to the sphere of

Title: Genesis: Lecture VII
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stage of astral clairvoyance. Let me remind you of the scenes which
And these two globes could represent what is at work in his astral
as an external phenomenon in astral space. It would be a very great
astral and felt his own development as an external world. Today it

Title: Genesis: Lecture VIII
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next to acquire the garment of the astral body.
what this means. When today can we study the laws of the astral body,
isolated from the physical body? Our astral bodies are separated from
us when we are asleep, though the astral form is now quite different
himself is in his astral body, which hides within it his ego.
peculiar life of the astral body during sleep. From my
you will recall that when the astral body is outside the
astral body has been united, through its effluence, with the entire
strengthening forces which give to the astral body what it needs to
and etheric bodies. During the night our astral bodies are diffused
and enlarged to a cosmic existence. The clairvoyant sees the astral
point of fact that is an inadequate description. The astral body
currents which emanate from the astral body. They go out into cosmic
if anyone tells you that the astral body is what can be seen by a
body, it is not true. During the night the astral body is poured out
astral body. None of the interpretations of the term “astral
astral body because during sleep it is in inner union with the starry
world, the astral world, because it rests in the world of the stars
astral body must have streamed to man from the astral world, the
in the laws and forces of the astral body, then on that same fourth
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Title: Genesis: Lecture IX
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astrally. While, so long as the sun remained with the earth,
etheric-astral state. What was described on the third
distinguish in him four members, the physical, etheric and astral
it belonged to the astral being of man. It is the forces working in
the astral body that we must have in mind, when we contemplate the
have when with our astral body we are outside our physical and
into the astral environment of our earth, into the forces and

Title: Genesis: Lecture X
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the astral and then gradually condenses into the etheric-physical; it
solidifies. Out of the flowing sea of the astral, of the Devachanic,

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture II
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particular religion, something like an astral mist is formed through

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture III
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second super-sensible world, is observed with the astral body. The
astral body. While, therefore, in the case of a man, we should be
his etheric and astral bodies, his higher bodies if we may so call
the, astral body and connection with the astral world. But man knows

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture IV
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astral body. To live in the astral body, to experience oneself in the
astral body, means in the first place that one feels oneself to be a
the physical body, not only in the etheric body but also in the astral
the universe — the living oneself into the astral body, the
still belongs to it. But when one makes one's way into the astral
oneself, is the crossing over to life in the astral body. When this is
alone there. You are with your life in the astral body and everywhere
world, the true spiritual world, not the astral world. It is nonsense
to say that through his astral body, which I have described as the
awakener of the etheric body, man enters the astral world. Rather does

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture V
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and experiencing oneself in the etheric and astral bodies take place.
central point. Experience in the astral body, however, appears as a
springing out of oneself into the astral body. It is at this moment
point of living in the astral body, one is then in the astral world.
experience in sensory existence, and experience in the astral body in
and also the beings. But when in the astral body we are seeing into
view — above the astral world, it is natural for us no longer to

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture VII
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his etheric body, in his astral body, and also in what may be called

Title: Lecture: The Sermon on the Mount
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Of the astral body He said, “In former times those whose astral bodies
egos, through the in-dwelling Christ, to purify the astral body on
earth. Thus, the new influence in the astral body had to be presented
by saying, “Blessed and God-imbued in their astral bodies are those

Title: The Ego: Lecture 1
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Saturn character, the etheric body Sun character, the astral body Moon
matter; and the astral body also. One starts as a rule from the

Title: The Ego: Lecture 2
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without our perceiving, for instance the astral body winding round a
ancient observer saw the flower and the astral body round it —
clairvoyant as pure astral-etheric streams. But later, these pure
being. Our hair is a dried-up astral-etheric stream. And such things
the relationship between the astral in-streaming light, and the hair;
astral body is especially predominant. And so we see in the
astral body is especially prominent. Then the “I” or Ego can
youth; that the Captivity was the time when, as it were, the astral

Title: The Ego: Lecture 3
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astral body, in which were those forces which were the forces of
his astral body. The ancient human being saw, perceived in the astral
found from the astral body to the use of the Ego. With reference to
only the astral body could do this.
Man employed his astral body as organ of knowledge, but he lost more
astral body. And the more one approached the Christ Event, that stage
of evolution arose of which man must say: My astral body has less and
could not so run their course that man saw how his astral body
astral body similar to the way one should later see and know through
the Ego: The egoity (Ego-hood) was, as it were, prepared in the astral
body. That was an anticipation of the egoity in the astral body. Man
The astral body really belonged to the ancient moon. At that time, the
was man's task to use his astral body. Everything else was only
become fully man in the astral body; but on the moon, only the angel
could become man in the astral body. Therefore — just as in the
— prophets were so inspired in their human astral body, that the
astral body only the angels of the moon have raised themselves to the
in the human breast, since the astral body had gradually lost the
astral body was put in activity, it could see in the divine spiritual
dark in man. Man could formerly spread out his astral body over
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Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture II
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nature, the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the
Ego, the latter two, the astral body and the Ego, gain a certain
body with the etheric body remain lying on the bed, and the astral
world, in which he lives with his Ego and his astral body at night,
must of course be built into his astral body — relatively
astral body and the ego of the normal person are in a certain way
the physical and etheric bodies at night, while in the astral body
that of building into his hitherto unorganised astral body, and ego,
equipped his astral body and ego with spiritual eyes and ears, etc.
Such a person would then have an astral body different from that of
an ordinary person since he would have an organised astral body. He
necessary for spiritual eyes and ears to be developed in his astral
body, but also for all that is thus plastically formed in this astral
the spiritual eyes and ears, etc. formed in the astral body imprint
the etheric body has to help the astral body and the ego if
astral body and etheric body, with the sole exception of the physical
difficulties for the etheric body than for the astral body in this
respect. For the astral body and ego are, we might say, in the
the astral body and the ego are bound up with the forces of the
physical body, which prevent the astral body and ego from developing
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Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture III
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The Nature of the Physical and the Astral Worlds
named, as everyone knows, the Astral or Soul world; the Spiritual
of the astral world, however, reveals the fact that here the capacity
birth and decay in the physical world. In the astral world we have to
perpetual metamorphosis. Even the astral body of man, which is of all
astral phenomena the most intimately bound up with us, visible to the
astral auric cloud changes practically every moment as higher or
character of the will impulses. Images and shapes arise in the astral
fundamental character and colour in the astral aura of every
human astral body. We have seen that the beings visible to a man in
the astral world after he has reached the stage of illumination meet
invisible upon the physical plane and only perceptible in the astral
physical world; metamorphosis from one form to another of the astral
observing from the astral world the man who has done the act of
astral shapes — shapes which are absent if no pang of
exists in his astral aura as a form or shape of the nature of thought
contact the spirits of conscience, who live upon the Astral plane, he
perceives astral forms around human beings, and the ancestors of this
see these astral forms. Just as fire conceals, the spirits of the
conceal the world of the spirits of conscience. The astral phenomena
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Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture VI
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merely of ether but just as the etheric, the astral and the ‘I’
became a new light within them, an inner, astral light. Historical

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envelopes of the physical, etheric and astral bodies, yet the nature

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into the Ego, but into the human astral body from within, just as the
the serpent. They are the beings which approached the human astral
create freedom for him, create the possibility of his astral body
spheres. Thus these Luciferic beings came to the astral body of man,
but nothing external in this sense can come to his astral body only.
being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, sentient
man the different members, physical body, etheric body, astral body
we call the sentient, or astral body.
Astral Body, Consciousness Soul, Etheric Body, and Physical Body.
astral body, and this he did. Because he could no longer perceive
by means of the astral body he had still to a certain extent astral
people; astrally they saw Ahura Mazdao and his servants because they
were still able to make use of the astral body. Now you know from the
that the astral body
old Persian nation made use of his astral body, his sentient soul
still undeveloped. He made use of his astral body in which the
as it then was. Therefore he felt that when the astral body,
straight down into the astral body. The old Persian said to himself:
their influences into the astral body.’ He realised that
influences from the sentient soul were working in upon the astral
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Title: The East in the Light of the West: Lecture IX
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penetrating into the astral realm we enter a world of change —
being of that Bodhisattva who inherited the astral body of
body, in the old Persian period through the astral body, in the

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physical, etheric and astral bodies, and in the ego. Of course, the
the action of the astral body working freely when the other members
astral body, this is wonderfully portrayed in the figure of “Dusk.”

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enclosed within the atmosphere of his own astral nature acquired on
astrality of a human being that has to be extirpated, removed.
longing for it in his subconsciousness or astral consciousness.
ego-consciousness or whether they dwell in our astral
astral body. Things of considerable significance and of which we are
forces essential to a proper building up of the astral and etheric

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with what remains in the astral body as forces from the last earthly

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his astral body all continue to exist. Because during physical
of all these forces in the astral body is essentially different when
astral body without having a physical body at his disposal. He still
an emotional disturbance in their astral body that will result in
Goethe's astral body, namely, that he had conceived a great,
world. He sent his forces into the astral body of Jesus child of the

Title: Lecture: Secrets/Threshold: Lecture VI
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well, he is experiencing the spiritual realm in his astral body. With
this experience — feeling oneself in the astral body —
what a person comes to recognize when he learns within his astral

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his astral body, where he experiences his other self. We have
domain, a tendency arises for those parts of man's etheric and astral
in the realm of the spirit clothed in the astral body. But as yet you

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leaves the etheric body clairvoyantly, he lives in the astral body
leaving the astral body the human being can then be within his true
etheric body, we are at first within the astral body; in the astral
shorter time, for others longer, we live within the astral body in
astral body, until the time comes when this astral body detaches
that point onwards. This detaching of the astral body is quite
loosening on every side, a growing larger and larger until the astral
own spiritual environment. On every side the astral body loosens
our own astral body. We see this astral body of ours gradually go
larger. We feel ourselves within the astral body — as has been
astral body. While being absorbed by the whole cosmic sphere, it
until it is lost. What is lost is the astral body that is always with
after death; their astrality, dispersing gradually as a sphere,
consciousness, the experience of having one's astrality

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source, the comfort, within themselves.” Of the astral body He
said, “In former times those whose astral bodies were beset by
Christ, to purify their astral bodies. The place in which the astral
astral body had to be presented by saying, “Blessed and filled
in their astral bodies with God are those who foster calmness and

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member is the astral body, the bearer of desire and apathy, joy
everything visible is derived from the same realm as the astral
condensation products of the astral body. Here is another
physical bodies are condensed out of the astral. The astral
forces that we see in the astral body. Of course, we are
enduring connection between the astral and physical bodies, but
standpoint, but also include that of the astral body, then
indicates significant conditions of the etheric and astral
bodies. These are two instances in which forces of the astral
must again transform his astral nature. In the future the human

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member is the astral body, which he has in common with animals,
astral body from out his ego. As a result the astral body now
physical body, its etheric body and its astral body in the
inwardly active, first adapts his astral body to the changed
and, from out the astral body, gradually change the etheric and
bliss and pleasure to his astral body. For by the astral body

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sympathy denotes a kind of astral sensuality. Sensuality on the
physical plane is of the same nature on the astral plane. It is the
body, astral body and the other higher members of his being, as water
physical body alone, the astral body must have separated from it: this
chemical separation of the astral body with the higher members of
means of an example. Think of some particular part of the astral body.
astral body. Let us suppose that at one time pictures of the three
impressed into the astral body. This picture of three-dimensional
space which was once impressed into the astral body through the old,
seal is pressed into liquid sealing wax, so did the astral picture
Originally there was a picture in the astral body of the three
Thus are the pictures of the astral body connected with the forces of
than a product of the pictures of the astral body and the forces of
the etheric body. Hence those who have no knowledge of the astral and
etheric bodies cannot understand the physical body. The astral body is

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permeated by the etheric body and the astral body. These three bodies
are united and only when the etheric and the astral bodies are removed
revelation known as the astral world. Rosicrucian Theosophy calls this
transformations within the astral world. In the movement that has
Imaginative world, Astral world, Elemental world, are interchangeable.
We come now to the third member of man's being, to the astral body
the astral body in common only with the animals. The astral body is
astral body. The astral body must be characterised by saying that
animal world, too, has consciousness. The astral being of man and of
parlance. The forces which hold the astral body together and give it
the form it has, are to be perceived in their true form, in the astral
world. The ego-consciousness of the animal is also within this astral
found on the astral plane. We must not think here of the single animal
found on the astral plane. So that the animal is really only
comprehensible when it can be followed upwards to the astral plane.
and in the astral world unite into the group-soul that is common to
an individual ego, so in every astral body there lives something of a
group-ego; this animal-ego lives in the human astral body and the
develops astral sight and becomes a companion of astral beings, when
the group-souls of the animals confront him on the astral plane as
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When the human being sinks into sleep, his astral body and ego,
together with what has been worked upon in the astral body by the ego,
astral body emerges together with the higher members; with
clairvoyance we can see how, when sleep begins, the astral body,
astral body of modern man appears as if it consisted in many streams
like the trail of a comet. Both these trails of the astral body very
Sleep that is filled with dreams is a condition where the astral body
truth, an intermediate condition because the astral body has detached
The human being, while he is asleep, lives in his astral body outside
astral body is inactive and has no work to do during the night while
the astral body is within the physical and etheric bodies, influences
result of the functioning of his own astral body, through his senses,
astral body. This constitutes the actual feeling and thinking part of
the astral body. While the human body is active in the external world
during the day, the astral body is receiving impressions all the time.
But let us remember, on the other hand, that the astral body is the
born out of the astral body.
Out of what is the astral body itself born? It is born out of the
universal astral organism which weaves through the whole of the
the small portion of astral substantiality contained in your astral
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downwards into the astral world, with the result that in this lower
to error. — If someone is observing the astral pictures of the
tally with the astral pictures but not with the devachanic pictures of
most cases only its astral reflections. Now there is something
reality it is only his astral Akasha-picture. The spirit of Caesar may
the astral region, the “Elemental World.” Here he receives a
new astral body... If iron filings are scattered on a piece of paper
the same way, the irregularly distributed astral substance is
Thus the human being himself gathers together his astral body. These
human beings in the making, who to begin with have only an astral
They shoot and whirl through the astral world with tremendous
formation of the astral body, depended upon themselves, upon the
being always has a fitting astral body but there is not in every case
perfect accordance between the astral body and the etheric and
a physical nature befitting the astral being.
the etheric body to the astral body and whose rank is similar to that
although it has not a common physical body, has a common astral body
of astral cloud and is the “body” of the Folk-Spirit. Of

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clothes himself with an astral body. Through what is contained in this
astral body he is attracted to certain human beings on the earth;
and manner in which he has developed his astral body, he is drawn to
the mother; the essence, the substance, the Organisation of the astral
to the folk, to the family; the astral body attracts him particularly
It may happen that the astral body is attracted to a mother but that
element of will, the impulse of perceptivity. In the astral body lie
“ I ,” astral body and etheric body is, from the moment of
At about the third week the astral and etheric bodies take hold, as it
without the influence of the astral body and etheric body. From then
expressed itself in a certain process of decay in their astral and
products of decay were inoculated into the astral bodies of the
physical body. The skin absorbed the astral elements and the outcome
astral body and comes to physical expression as pulmonary
astral beings who participated in the various battles of the
astral plane after their death, they filled the souls of the Japanese
Not until we learn how to influence the astral plane too can we

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astral bodies, thereby contributing something to his vitality and
the etheric and astral bodies like a wounding arrow.
tremendous difference in the astral world if one voices a thought that
truly, an astral form rays out from the teller, unites with the form
which destroys the organism. Thus do lies kill the astral forms which
lie is a murder. Not only does it kill an astral form, but it is also
has its effect in the astral world. A man's disposition, temperament,
transient — all this streams continually not only into the astral
a new incarnation the human being reconstitutes his astral body and
had become integral parts of the astral world, leaving many traces
together to form a good astral body for him. What he had incorporated
strongly work upon our astral body in the next incarnation, drawing
and has acquired wide knowledge, his astral body in the next
incarnation, in the astral body. Inner experience, all that a man
Thus knowledge of the connection between the physical and the astral
the astral body appears again in the etheric body; the lasting
incarnation. What the astral body does becomes the destiny of the
astral plane; beings and forces in the higher regions of Devachan,
that in the astral body and in the etheric body, as well as in the
The beings who permeate the astral body and make it unfree are known
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in the etheric and astral bodies before passing through the Elemental
experiencing oneself as an astral being, spread out in space,
your astral body after your death feels as if it were in Mainz,
during the process of up-building, your astral body once again finds
already on the astral plane. On the physical plane there is continuity
of substance; on the astral plane, however, related yet separated
astral being; another part may be on the Moon and a third on yet
another planet; there need be no visible astral connection between
Suppose that on the astral plane there is an individual who acquired
by the higher members of his being; Ego, astral body, etheric body and
wisdom. Do not imagine that the astral body of man today is as far
built up with art and with wisdom; the astral body, with its desires,
future stage of evolution will the astral body have reached the stage
is the most perfect; the etheric body is less perfect, the astral body
together for a time, the astral body was added, and then, finally, the
added on the Sun, the astral body on the Moon, and the “ I ”
as Jupiter. The human astral body then will have developed to a stage
On the planetary body following Jupiter, the astral body will have

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On the Moon was added the Astral-body; this still further altered the
it and made it more perfect. On the Moon the Astral body was added,
etheric body, astral body and ego have worked on it. So too the
Then the astral body worked further during the Moon existence, the Ego
the nervous system originated through the incorporation of the astral
the life-body; thus the astral body is the builder of the nervous

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When man is asleep the seer beholds the astral body with the ego
enveloped in it as though floating over the physical body. The astral
in the sleeping man we have the physical, the etheric and the astral
body, but this last sends out tentacles towards the great astral
an astral soul with the ego, then we should have the condition in
which mankind existed on the Moon. Except that on the Moon the astral
is outside him, united to the astral body and ego, but yet that the
astral atmosphere, in which the egos were embedded.
being consists of four members: Physical body, Etheric body, Astral
The next higher is the etheric body, then the astral body and the ego.
Others have the astral body as their lowest member and in compensation
already down below, but your astral body with your ego was enveloped
in the great general astral body of the Sun. And there you worked down
astral body is outside it works upon the physical and the etheric
member, not the ego but the astral body. They possessed astral body,
this they had a lower member, the astral body. These were the Spirits
who were active on the Sun, they guided all astral activity. They
incorporated for the first time on the Moon by the astral body. Plants
But the astral bodies, especially those that proceeded from the Fire

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of physical body and etheric body, but there was now the astral body
body, etheric body, and astral body, but as yet no ego. The
man today. By virtue of the incorporation of the astral body into the
present solar-plexus. Through the work of the astral body upon the
been on Saturn and the astral body on the Sun, and from there this
down today from the astral plane on to the physical body, it is a
up the astral body after the Sun existence and had therefore remained
the astral body as their external sheath. On the Moon there were
etheric body, astral body, ego, Spirit-self, Life-spirit and
experiences of the soul. It is only when beings possess an astral

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only to one who can ascend to the astral plane; there you could not
an actual life on the astral plane, and are not perceptible here on
etheric body and human astral body ready to possess an
the ego consciousness into the astral and etheric bodies. As yet the
descended into the astral and etheric bodies was no longer quite in
body, etheric body and astral body, but without the refining power of
his astral body was the bearer of the most savage lusts, for every bad
(physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego). It is now for the
on the body which had been last received, the astral body, and this
purification of the astral body constitutes our present civilisation.

Title: Theosophy/Rosicrucian: Lecture XIII: The Future of Man
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worlds, with information concerning the astral plane and Devachan.

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his soul he must stand erect! Then in an inner astral vision he sees
astral, in which he sees himself crucified.
body and astral body was somewhere outside in the universe. This is

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astral or soul body as that which lives in our feelings and
sleeping and waking states. During sleep the astral body and
ego and astral body during sleep in the spiritual world remain hidden
the human being is organised in such a way that the ego and astral
we awaken, the ego and astral body experience new knowledge of the
sleep, for the ego and astral body spend their time in the spiritual
world. The human being has sense organs in the astral body which
enable perception in the astral world, but these have normally not
physical and etheric bodies a densification of the astral body.
and the astral body leave during the night while the physical and
origin of the two sexes is to be found in the astral sphere. In the
astral body and ego of the human being. And that which the artist

Title: Die Geheimnisse der biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte: Vierter Vortrag
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den Ätherleib durchdringen ein astralischer Leib, der die
dadurch konnten sie in sich aufnehmen einen astralischen Leib
astralischen Leibes. Was sich wiederholte bis zum Ende des
Astralisches an sich. Alles Wesenhafte hatte Astralisches an
Astralisch-Tierischen. Da aber immer, vom Anfang an, in die

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Kräften unseres Astralleibes und unseres Ichs stattfindet,
des Schlafzustandes, wenn der Astralleib mit dem Auf- und

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ätherische und astralische Welt nennen, in einem

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macht dieses Stadium astralischen Hellsehens durch. Ich
das darstellen, was in dem astralischen Leib des Hellsehers
draußen befindliche Erscheinungen des astralischen Raumes
Seelendaseins. So war der Monden-mensch im Astralischen

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zunächst das Kleid des astralischen Leibes erhalten.
Schöpfungstag mit dem astralischen Leib umkleiden. —
abgesondert vor uns seinen Astralleib, so daß wir seine
Astralleib, wenn auch in einer ganz anderen Form, als er in der
Mensch selber ist dann im Astralleib, der das Ich birgt,
dieses Astralleibes im schlafenden Zustande. Erinnern Sie sich
Sie sich sagen: Wenn dieser Astralleib aus dem physischen und
bilden, gleichsam Strömungen von diesem Astralleib aus
Kosmos. In einer gewissen Beziehung war Ihr Astralleib
Kräfte, die in den Astralleib hineinsenden, was wir
zu einem Weltendasein ist unser Astralleib während der
Einschlafen den Astralleib sich aus dem physischen Leib in
der Astralleib aus dem physischen Leib heraus, wie eine
astralischen Leib herausgliedern. Sie gehen tatsächlich in
sagen wollte, daß der Astralleib das ist, was man mit
Ihnen gar nicht die Wahrheit, denn dieser Astralleib ist
Darum sprechen wir auch von einem «astralischen»
astralischer Leib, der im Mittelalter geprägt worden ist,
sind nicht richtig. Wir sprechen von Astralleib aus dem Grunde,
innerer Verbindung ist mit den Sternen, mit der astralischen
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allerdings astralisch zu mumifizieren. Waren die
ätherisch-astralischen Zustand innerhalb des Erdenleibes
physischen, den Äther-, den Astralleib und den
der Menschennatur herausgeht, das, was wir die astralische
unserem astralischen Leib wirkt, das haben wir zunächst
Astralleib aus dem physischen und Ätherleib heraus sind,
eingegliedert ist in die astralische Umgebung unserer Erde, in

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Geistige sich dann zunächst mit dem Astralischen
verfestigt. Aus dem Flutenmeere des Astralischen, des

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astral body, ego and so on. It may seem to many people that once they
astral body, itself evolves in respect of the relationships between
etheric body and astral body were far looser than they are in men
today. In those times the astral body and the etheric body were far
astral body and etheric body try to be connected more and more firmly
advances and the astral body and the etheric body of man tend to
was possible in ancient times when the astral and etheric bodies
of this feeling or idea spread quickly into the astral and etheric
the soul is constantly becoming less, because the astral body and the
astral body; and into these bodies with their greater freedom there
able to work into man's etheric and astral bodies. But in the
etheric and astral bodies away from the inmost core of man's being,
able to penetrate into the etheric and astral bodies.
into the astral and etheric bodies which then imprinted the passions
the future, will chain the astral and etheric bodies to itself, and
drawing the etheric body and also the astral body to itself. By this
etheric and astral bodies become impotent, just as when the plant is
the etheric and astral bodies are impoverished. A brain that
wants to remain static with those it has already acquired. The astral
same relationship between etheric body and astral body and ego in
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Title: Lecture: The Concepts of Original Sin and Grace
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being to develop; the astral body had developed earlier, the etheric
first stage of the development of the astral body preceded that of the
consisted of three members only: physical body, etheric body, astral
the animals. They consist of physical body, etheric body and astral
and astral body only, whereas man has the ego in addition. Man passed
through a phase of evolution when the astral body was the highest
physical body, etheric body and astral body, his nature was never the
now he has his ego. At that time, therefore, he sinned with his astral
astral body. This, therefore, is a deed which belongs to the period
astral body having incurred guilt before man became an ego-endowed being
which was enacted then in the astral body. Man found himself on a steep
fourteenth to the twenty-first years the astral body, and so on. When
which proceeds from the guilt incurred by the astral body. After the
fourteenth year, the astral body develops further. Yes, but the
influence of Lucifer is implanted in the astral body! What works back
enable man to propagate his kind. In other words: what the astral body
activated in the astral body through the temptation of Lucifer,
work back upon the astral body and can only take effect in karma; but
back into the etheric body from the astral body, contributes only to
Sin which still persisted in the human astral body was handed down by gradual
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Title: Lecture: Esoteric Studies: Cosmic Ego and Human Ego
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the sentient soul; during the ancient Persian, the sentient or astral
physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body. You must now
astral body. Within these I have my ego, the essential earth
development: their physical body, etheric or life body, and astral
physical body, the etheric body and the astral body, and the

Title: Lecture: Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness
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appear in the astral body, but what lives in them must be

Title: Lecture: Hidden Forces of Soul-Life
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the astral plane. A knowledge of this fact can be attained if we

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and astral bodies of the great initiates and avatars that were
exceeded anything their astral bodies or egos were able to
the astral body, as well as the ability to perceive in
Trismegistos. Through processes that are known, the astral
processes we will gradually learn to understand, the astral
Zarathustra's astral body as if it were a garment.
possessed his own astral body and ego, and he was now to have
by his own astral body and before his own ego was able to
and of an astral body, we know it is insufficient to speak
acquainted with—the etheric body and the astral body
own physical, etheric, and astral body, as well as his ego,
longer have etheric or astral bodies that were originally
human being has in his or her etheric and astral body a
that made it possible for the astral body of Nicholas of Cusa
to be preserved and then to be woven into the astral body of
that is an example of how the astral body has
etheric and astral bodies, and of the ego too in a lesser
the astral body and of the etheric body of Jesus of Nazareth
Shem's etheric body, the copies of the astral and
of the etheric body and the astral body of Jesus of Nazareth
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bed, while his astral body, including the Sentient Soul, Intellectual Soul
and Consciousness Soul, withdraw, as does the Ego. During sleep the astral
the astral body is the bearer of pleasure and pain, joy and grief, instincts,
astral body and the Ego are in spiritual worlds? Is there not a contradiction
contradiction is only apparent. The astral body is indeed the bearer of
astral body cannot perceive these experiences directly. It can perceive them
the Ego and astral body must come back into the etheric and physical bodies
of man, his Ego and astral body, his Consciousness Soul, Intellectual Soul
born, his Ego and astral body, including his Sentient Soul, Intellectual Soul
period when the lower astral body, especially, can be developed, until
addressing young people of this age — from 14 to 21, when the astral
entirely justified, for the influence thus poured into the astral body during
because the physical, etheric and astral bodies are still plastic in young

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beings who possess a certain form of consciousness: with the animals. Astral
physical body, etheric body or life-body, astral or consciousness-body.
being. We have first the astral body, the vehicle of pleasure and pain, of
low level, whose Ego has done little, as yet, to cleanse his astral body and
worked upon his astral body in such a way that his lower instincts, desires
astral body.
being it is possible to distinguish the part of the astral body on which the
man. The astral body was the first to be worked on in this way, and its
progress of mankind. In respect of the astral body, and of everything in man

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had then reached; he was using his astral body which
revelation, he used his astral body, seeing and perceiving
transition from use of the astral body to use of the
only for the astral body.
how evolution proceeded: Man once used his astral body as an
organ of perception, but the astral body became less and less
world through his astral body and the ‘I’ was not
change from the time when man felt his astral body becoming
a few human beings were able to experience in the astral body
were in the astral body. It was through the ‘I’
sense. The astral body properly belonged to the evolutionary
Old Moon it was appropriate for man to use his astral body.
man could never become fully man in the astral body; on the
stage in the astral body. And just as the Christ lived in
Moon, prophetically inspired man's astral body as a
heard, only in the astral body. Now, in order that man might
inner life when the astral body had gradually lost the power
into the divine-spiritual world. Formerly, when the astral
him. He had once been able to expand his astral body over all
astral body can no longer expand into the divine-spiritual
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Title: Mission/Rosenkreutz: Lecture V. The Christ Impulse as Living Reality
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Christ on the astral plane as an Ether Form.

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connected with the next element, the astral world. It is from the
astral plane that those forces come that awaken and maintain the life
because their emotional unrest prevents us entering the astral plane.
but rejects them from that part of the astral world that is lower
concepts, our intellectuality, is closely connected with the astral
Man is connected through his intellect with the astral plane, but he
lift it up into the astral world. The human being who has advanced to
sound, and from His astral body of light He will fill their receptive
souls with the Word that was active in astral form in the beginning,
connection with the astral world, and even greater still are the
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies. The ego could only

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on the astral plane in an etheric form.

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture III: Reflections in the Mirror of Consciousness, Superconsciousness and Subconsciousness
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may so describe them, open within the astral body, but what

Title: Psychoanalysis: Lecture IV: Hidden Soul Powers
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Christ from the astral plane into our world in an etheric form.

Title: Truths and Errors: Lecture IV: Truths of Spiritual Research
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exceptionally important quality of the astral space when I was
Question: How do physical body, astral body, and ego
physical body and etheric body are lying in the bed, and astral
and the astral body are beyond the physical body in a way.

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seinem physischen, ätherischen und astralischen Leibe; das Selbst jedoch war weggegangen.
Äther- und Astralleib alles das, was aus dem Ich
ätherischen und astralischen Leib erfühlten,

Title: Das Fünfte Evangelium: Zweiter Vortrag, Mnchen, 10. Dezember 1913
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physischen Leib, Ätherleib und Astralleib bestand, mit der
des Christus und dem Ätherleib und Astralleib des Jesus von Nazareth, wie Luzifer und
astralischen Leibes des Jesus von Nazareth, so wie er sich
astralischen Leib des Jesus
empfindet der Astralleib mit dem Ich

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astral body and part of the etheric body out of the physical body,
astral body and not in the physical body. We know that the astral
astral body are reflected in the etheric body. The esoteric
interest. His ego and astral body are nevertheless there. Then when
adapt itself to what the ego and astral body took in. Thereby the

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 3-15-10
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development up to age 14, when the astral body is born. But all kinds
astral body unfolds from age 14, 15, to 21, 22. The things that are
the etheric body is a much denser mass than the astral body.
both the astral body and the ego. This wouldn't be possible
wanted to intervene in the astral body and he tried to direct the
uproar in this astral body, for a modern should develop freely and
old Moon, the newly added astral body was in the Saturn condition,

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earth consists of the tetralogy: physical body, etheric body, astral
is not directly on the etheric body but on the astral body or soul

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spheres at night with our astral body and ego, from which we bring down
because we couldn't live for a minute while our ego and astral

Title: Esoteric Lessons Part II: Muenchen, 2-12-11
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our talents that correspond to the astral body, and from our ego that

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things would remain like this until rebirth if the astral body

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astral body goes into spiritual space with the etheric body. The
intellectual, thinking part of the astral body expands out of the
astral body doesn't remain as continuous as the etheric body in
who's staying out there in space, part of our astral body gets
nature — it separates from the astral body. The latter breaks up
into many little pieces. Thus we have parts of our astral body
between these parts of our astral body; they're bound to each
over these scattered astral pieces. Other beings took care of this.
between the various parts of his astral body and is thereby protected

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into it with Moon forces, astral things, and earth forces, the ego,
the astral body and ego were incorporated, so the nervous system,

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term consciousness could develop in it; nor could an astral body,
from without that they could take into themselves astral bodies and
during the Moon evolution the rudiments of an astral body. What was
of astrality. Everything which has being has astrality. To infuse the
advance to the animal, to the astral stage. But because all the time,

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fluctuating energies of our astral bodies and our egos, constitutes a
physical body is quite different in sleep, when the astral body with

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astral worlds, in a higher sense also belongs to the sphere of

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stage of astral clairvoyance. Let me remind you of the scenes which
And these two globes could represent what is at work in his astral
as an external phenomenon in astral space. It would be a very great
astral and felt his own development as an external world. Today it

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next to acquire the garment of the astral body.
what this means. When today can we study the laws of the astral body,
isolated from the physical body? Our astral bodies are separated from
us when we are asleep, though the astral form is now quite different
himself is in his astral body, which hides within it his ego.
peculiar life of the astral body during sleep. From my
you will recall that when the astral body is outside the
astral body has been united, through its effluence, with the entire
strengthening forces which give to the astral body what it needs to
and etheric bodies. During the night our astral bodies are diffused
and enlarged to a cosmic existence. The clairvoyant sees the astral
point of fact that is an inadequate description. The astral body
currents which emanate from the astral body. They go out into cosmic
if anyone tells you that the astral body is what can be seen by a
body, it is not true. During the night the astral body is poured out
astral body. None of the interpretations of the term “astral
astral body because during sleep it is in inner union with the starry
world, the astral world, because it rests in the world of the stars
astral body must have streamed to man from the astral world, the
in the laws and forces of the astral body, then on that same fourth
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astrally. While, so long as the sun remained with the earth,
etheric-astral state. What was described on the third
distinguish in him four members, the physical, etheric and astral
it belonged to the astral being of man. It is the forces working in
the astral body that we must have in mind, when we contemplate the
have when with our astral body we are outside our physical and
into the astral environment of our earth, into the forces and

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the astral and then gradually condenses into the etheric-physical; it
solidifies. Out of the flowing sea of the astral, of the Devachanic,

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body and the astral body; our innermost, our ego, is hidden within
and which has also transformed the astral body. For these three
upwards into the astral body, and downwards into the physical body;
that is to say, the ether body has an influence both on the astral
compact; it so transforms the astral body that it no longer develops
him a world of images. Of course it was the forces of the astral body
which called forth these images, but the astral body would not have
astral body does not of itself see images. Just as a man does not see
himself advancing unless a mirror confronts him, so the astral body
by the astral body. What man perceives of the goings-on in his own
astral body is what is mirrored for him by his ether body. If all our
inner astral processes were not reflected by our ether bodies we
should of course still have the astral body's activity within
world. What the world brings about in the astral body would not open
the third member, the astral body itself. This is the element in us
ether body. Knowledge is kindled in the astral body; it is
an image, is kindled in the astral body; we have these in us because
we have astral bodies. But these thoughts and images become conscious
of knowledge is kindled in the astral body; this torch is reflected
which is kindled in the astral body has changed in the course of the
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constitutes what we call the astral body. In this way, having the
microcosmic substance, the astral body, we can give an answer in
astral body ... we can then ask ourselves what corresponds without
in the widths of space to the astral body — what fills all
astral body extends throughout our microcosm, so is the universal
macrocosmic counterpart of our astral body, and we can also say that
counterpart of our astral body. In us we have the astral body, it
the astrality from which, as from the cosmic womb, is born the
thought of as Zeus, and which is the cosmic counterpart of our astral
distinguished from the forces of the astral body — the former
us and then disappears, belongs to the astral body; every habitual,
expression of will-impulses as the astral body is the expression of
nature of his being into astral, etheric and physical bodies. The
that physical, etheric and astral bodies were distinguished. Now that
sense of taste, for he knows that the astral body and the etheric
astral and etheric man, one has a different taste from what one has
The astral body can
sense of taste. In the case of the astral body the sense of taste is
Knowledge of one's own astral body has to be described in quite
relate his self-knowledge solely to his astral body — that is
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forces found in man's astral body as transplanted into cosmic
man as consisting of physical, etheric, astral, and also of the ego
come into the sphere of Poseidon, and the forces of the astral body
the forces of the astral body, transplanted into the universe, so we
that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became
astral spheres have become permeated through and through by Him. This

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the macrocosmic representative of the astral forces at work in man,
astral bodies, their counterpart outspread in space ... was once
soul-forces concentrated in our astral bodies.’ If clairvoyant
the soul-forces in the human astral body.’ The same thing
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
physical, etheric and astral bodies, for they had been fully
astral bodies needed in order that Earth evolution might be rightly
developed when man's highest member was his astral body. We
developed physical, etheric and astral bodies, man bore in his astral
itself with the astral Zeus forces. Grafted upon the Zeus forces as
in the astral and Zeus forces, and if in what then emerges, and is at
lived in him, side by side with what was in his astral body as the
Zeus forces, Persephone.’ Man had brought over this astral
on Earth was like! He felt, ‘I have in my astral body. ... I
Zeus forces in his astral body with the Persephone forces. What came
ancient times man bore in him from the side of Zeus his astral body,
soul-forces anchored in the astral body. These soul-forces have come
her union with Zeus — with the forces of the astral body. Thus

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body, astral body and ego. Our being consists of these four members.
not just to the astral plane but to the highest region of Spirit-
in the flames of the astral world. Semele bears witness to this human
arisen under the influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies,
physical, etheric and astral bodies, he wondered what they would look
had not been drawn into the physical, etheric and astral bodies, how
man, purely under the influence of astral, etheric and physical
astral bodies. They said to themselves: ‘Dionysos and his rout
influence of physical, etheric and astral bodies, that is, as a man
etheric and astral bodies. These are the satyrs and Sileni who follow
physical, etheric and astral bodies of a man could be so treated that

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astral body and ego, it can come to no viable theory of knowledge.
ego through the astral body down to the etheric body. As far as its
etheric and astral bodies and so on.’ It is there that
again into etheric body, astral body and ego. And it is these images

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turn our clairvoyant gaze, we find the astral body very strongly
Baptism by John in the Jordan, of the physical, etheric and astral
the head, but astral currents are also present in this stream. If one
substances of man's astral body. A substance streams from heart
astral body of man are present. Now the brain is a most remarkable
peculiar quality. It arrests the astrality which rises up, prevents
the astral current from passing through it, while it does allow the
current, but not for the astral one. The astral current is arrested
astral currents rising upwards from the body spread out in the brain
all, or only to a very small extent. These upward astral currents
for the external astral substantialities which are always around us
in the astral substance of the Earth. Hence the astral body of man in
astralities, out of the astrality which continually streams towards
us from the cosmos, and the astrality in the human body which comes
up from below and is attracted by the outer astrality.
Thus the astral body
made of astral substance — a cap which we wear all the time. We
have in the region of the head an astral covering consisting of the
and the outer astralities. The rays of the etheric body pass through
this astral hood or cap, since they are not arrested by the brain,
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astral body, brings it to a standstill, and lets the images of this
astral body, because they are not allowed to pass through our brain,
clairvoyant times it was not only the images of the astral body that
Old Moon as astral body remains subconscious; it lights up in the
we encounter what is in us as astral, etheric and physical bodies,
is there below in his astral, etheric and physical natures. Together
etheric and astral bodies in all their parts have been assembled by
particular use of the right hand. Thus it is the etheric and astral

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the etheric body, demons in the astral body and spirits in the ego. To
framework for the astral body, namely a hexagram with the head and

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An especially important event took place on the astral plane in
Something quite similar to a birth took place on the astral plane in

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sleeper who hears nothing because the ego and astral body have left
a destructive effect on them. The astral body throws what the retina
from outside. The astral body is also destroyed by outer impressions
and then the I is supposed to build things up again. The astral body
that most children cry after they're born. Their astral body feels
astral body, and that are viable. Most of the impressions that we send
the other side via the astral body by forming a thought in this that
at the right place, so we must form our astral and etheric bodies

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astral body that had previously been disordered and unstructured,
created through which we begin to form organs. These astral organs are
world order through this independent formation of astral organs, we
things, and namely to protect the astral body from the effects of
and vanity and their effect on the astral body, that make it look as
into an ordinary person's astral body by sending forces out from
within to the astral body's skin, like a tree towards its bark, and
his astral body wouldn't be able to prevent the needles from
astral body's substance cloudy and opaque. Divine forces counteract
becomes manifest in the astral body as condensations with thorns.

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etheric, astral bodies and I on Saturn, Sun, Moon and earth,
flowed, united himself with the earth's astral body and brought it new
life and light. He lives in this astral body as the astral light that
shines in darkness. When we've attained vision we see in this astral
see the astral light in them shine, the light in the darkness, and
astral light. To be able to stand this astral light neophytes had to
astral light, Paul was without sight for three days.

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astral body also has a skin. A dependent, weak man has a very thin,
strong-willed man has a thick astral skin. But all astral skins get
The astral body draws new forces from the Gods to form a new skin for
the astral body. The reforming of this astral skin is symbolized for

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which we gradually create spiritual organs in our astral body with
that we make in the mass of our astral body only gradually become
permanent, for we can compare our astral body with an elastic mass
awhile. We make these impressions during sleep when our ego and astral
in the astral body become, until they remain and the organs we call
that they can be imprinted from the astral into the etheric body. It's
second without an ego and an astral body and that therefore when these
astral body, but who stand much higher. An archangel replaces our
astral body, and a spirit of personality, our I. We meet these high
spiritual beings when we've developed our astral organs, and
permeated their astral bodies with his influences. This made the later

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changing; like all astral beings it is in constant motion. The generic

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astral light, not the darkness, nothing of what today's human being
light. These beings became visible in the astral light. Then, after
awhile, the astral world full of flowing light began to resound with
who consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, and I. When
the I lights up in the course of evolution then the astral and etheric
earth, dies, goes through an astral condition, through devachan, and
be learned. Then a number of pictures lead us to the astral plane. We
see groups of beings undergoing transformation in the astral light:
The quality and being of the astral light is indicated by the
transparency. In the astral light we can see through objects; they
appear like glass. The entire astral world is like a glass sea.
is constant movement in the astral world — astral eyes are everywhere
the sealed book, the astral imaginations. They approach us in pictures.
the spiritual beings in the astral light for awhile, they begin to sound

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the emphasis is on the development of the astral body, or the I. There
body; in Pergamon people worked especially on the astral body.
body. The etheric body must itself become an expression of the astral
resound into the astral body.
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the earth, sun, and moon sound together in our astral body. But what
influence our physical body. Everything in the I, astral body, etheric
I, three tones in the astral body, seven tones in the etheric body and

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must raise themselves to the astral plane, and then to the devachanic
to the astral plane are surrounded by a world of pictures, which are
These astral pictures are much more real than what exists here. These
human beings have worked through to the astral plane, then they raise
of all things. Progressing then from the astral plane to the devachanic
When human beings raise themselves to the astral plane they experience
these picture-seals are unsealed the astral world comes to meet us,
astral and devachanic planes also, at the same time, experiences the
on the physical plane. Place yourself with a seer presently on the astral
eye is opened. Think of everything that you experience on the astral
the astral world, is the future in the physical, so that the seer can
see today the future state of humankind on the astral plane. Initiation
bodies are the focus and in the third astral bodies are especially
that it is not true to say that at one location only the astral body, at
Pergamonians, goes to the region where the astral body is particularly
of the human being proceeds in such a way that the I works into the astral
body, spiritualizing it. That part of the astral body transformed by the I
Cultivating the astral body means, then, to work manas into the astral
body. As much as you have cultivated your astral body — to that
into decline. In Christian esotericism the degeneration of the astral
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