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Title: Lecture: Overcoming Nervousness
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four members of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego
acts most adversely on the strength of the etheric body. Thus, because of
professional pursuits, his etheric body is gradually weakened. Precisely
physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego. He will also come to
represents a strengthening of the etheric body, which, as we know, is the
prove to be an excellent cure. His etheric body will be strengthened and
know that the physical and etheric bodies are intimately connected. Now
spiritual science. In a healthy human being the etheric body, guided by
physical body is normally the servant of the etheric body. When,
represent the subordination of the etheric to the physical body, and denote
that the weak etheric body is no longer fully able to direct the physical.
Such a relationship between the physical and etheric bodies lies at the
of the astral body working through the etheric.
the etheric body and try to strengthen it. Imagine someone so dissipated
with what he is doing. The etheric body is strengthened in this way and
the classroom to strengthen the etheric body even in childhood. But, even
a remarkable strengthening of the etheric body.
So you see, something can be done to strengthen the etheric body. This is
of immense importance because in our time weakness of the etheric body
represents a definite way of working upon the etheric body. When these
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Title: Lecture: Problems of Nutrition
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longer exists. Thus, the would-be vegetarian, whether he likes it
vegetarian, who was asked by one of his patient's whether he
from the standpoint of spiritual science as to whether the
the etheric body. This is the architect of the physical body, which
substances. Beyond the etheric body, we must remember, is the
the standpoint of spiritual science, we find that his etheric body
relationships existing between physical body, etheric body and
been explained that throughout life the etheric body fights against
nature that he can have inner experiences. So, while the etheric
astral body become master of the physical and etheric bodies. When
person's eyes whether or not he produces his own fat. It can be
seen in the eyes of a person whether or not his astral body is
forces of his ego when he abstains from alcohol altogether. By
The etheric or life body is the carrier of all life and
plant kingdom. Plants have physical and etheric
possess a physical, etheric, and astral body.

Title: Lecture: The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
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The Weaving and Living Activity of the Human Etheric Bodies
THE WEAVING AND LIVING ACTIVITY OF THE HUMAN ETHERIC BODIES.
human being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body,
the etheric body lies at the foundation of the physical body. Let us,
place: it was transformed through the fact that the etheric body was
permeated with the etheric body. And it also had to change when it
body has been transformed through the fact that the etheric body
develops first of all within the astral body, then within the etheric
way as to become a bearer of the Ego. Together with the Ego, the
etheric body to man’s physical body and imagine that a certain
the human being and cease; to influence his etheric body. We would,
etheric body may be left entirely to its own resources, and may no
longer be influenced by anything else. For the etheric body is
and the physical body has its own solid form, to which the etheric
the etheric body must adapt itself to the physical body, without a
eliminate the forces to which the etheric body had to adapt itself;
we have asked them to withdraw, so that the etheric body can now obey
its own forces to the fullest extent. In that case, the etheric body
see the etheric body jumping out. And what would occur? — You
would have before you the whole animal kingdom! The etheric body
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Title: Lecture: Nervous Conditions in Our Time
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effect on the strength of the human ethereal body. The ethereal body
body, ethereal body, astral body and Ego;’ he will behave in
do, and that a picture is developed. This bringing-together of the
the ethereal body. For, as we know, the ethereal body is in a certain
this will strengthen the ethereal body. Assume, however, that you
nature, as you know, the physical body and the ethereal body are immediately
the two bodies, in a thoroughly healthy human being the ethereal body
ethereal. We are then faced with an inherent weakness of the ethereal
body. This kind of relation between the physical and the ethereal
so is to strengthen the ethereal body; thereby we become healthier
untold strengthening of the ethereal body.
we can do something in life to strengthen our ethereal body. Now this is
of the ethereal body. Nay, we may even assert that many forms of illness
would take an entirely different course if the ethereal body were stronger.
The course they actually take is due to the weakened ethereal body, which
here been indicating represents a definite way of working upon the ethereal
‘something’ — namely, in this case, the ethereal
to strengthen the ethereal body is to perform yet another exercise for
ethereal body if we go through something that is familiar to us, not
strengthen the ethereal body. To think through a whole play
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Title: Lecture: The Elementary Kingdoms
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with, that these minerals upon the earth have no etheric body
etheric body, we must ascend to the astral plane: there, its
etheric body is to be found. The moment that a human being
becomes astrally clairvoyant, he is able to see the etheric
discovers the etheric body, which gives life to the physical
physical plane, it has its physical body and its etheric
an etheric body, and an astral body — but it's Ego is
physical body, etheric body, astral body and the Ego have all
is asleep it is otherwise. The physical and etheric bodies
etheric body, the astral body, and the Ego. It has often been
etheric body has reached its third stage of perfection, for
— and here the cultist speaks of Warmth-Ether,
time, an etheric, or life-body, entered into it, transforming
etheric body consisting of one member, and the physical body
permeated by the etheric body. When picturing to ourselves to
etheric body; it has still the same value as the physical
within the etheric and physical bodies. Thus, we must now
the etheric and astral bodies; another part is permeated only
by the etheric body; and a third part has remained at the
of the physical body is permeated by the etheric body, astral
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Title: Lecture: On the Occasion of Goethe's Birthday
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whether our souls are capable of comprehending what belongs
vibration, either of ether or some other material substance.
first and foremost the ether hypothesis with its artistic
ourselves a body, whether planet or molecule, upon which
outer impacts the two bodies, whether molecules or planets,
are driven together. According to this theory the force
will examine the gills and fins, and will see whether more
the etheric bodies, or souls surviving after the death of
Here we have an allusion to the etheric body in the middle of
everywhere prevailed, together with an earnest striving to
and farewell, the thought that we are together in spirit,
together, and may it also bear fruit for that personal bond
May we be together in this sense, even after we have parted,
and may we ever anew be drawn together again, that we may

Title: Lecture: The Errors of Spiritual Investigation
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streams of thought, whether materialism or spiritualism,
investigator can experience whether he possesses sufficient
all this together, one can first really know oneself. If one
images together. For he can exclude now his entire
in judgment, throw everything together or else, if they
brought together with charlantaneric, and deception, either
whose wings beat so slowly together with whom however, she

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 1
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lifted into the refining spheres of etheric spiritual life that their
German language together with performances of the first two of

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 2
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three bodily sheaths; it is enclosed in the physical body, the ether
to look for this impulse primarily in the ether body. It is the ether
factor. It is the ether body which has made the physical body denser,
historical development of the human being, is the ether body. Let us
Demeter here in the ether body; from the etheric they are sent
that is to say, the ether body has an influence both on the astral
the ether body makes the physical body definitely denser, more
ether body has brought about a transformation in all three bodies,
the rape of Persephone by Pluto and her captivity in the nether world
to do with the ether body itself. Besides being the source
of the forces of metamorphosis, the ether body has also changed in
itself. In primeval times this ether body was so organised that the
say reflected back by the ether body. Thus it is the ether body which
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
total content of his consciousness is a reflection of his ether body.
Whether a man knows anything of the world depends upon his ether
the ether body? Its secret is that it is the key to knowledge of the
the door to knowledge of the world were it not for the ether body.
The ether body contains all that I have referred to in certain
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 3
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how the threads all hang together. In the two lectures just given I dwelt
to eliminate altogether what you mean today by the term
Being who gave birth out of the universal ether to all these
ether, so are the wide expanses of space, permeated with the
are rooted in our ether bodies. You know that from other
the matter as a Greek would do, we should ask once more whether there
we cover by the term ‘ether body’, and which bring about
in the soul, belongs to the ether body. And for everything which is
mere thoughts, and the ether body of enduring sentiments and habits.
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
delicate etheric sensation of taste, which most men do not
human ether body. It comes if one says, ‘I am now eliminating
this, when as a practising occultist he feels himself in this etheric
of the physical and of the etheric bodies.
to eliminate his physical body, to eliminate his ether body, and to
physical, etheric and astral. He never has the astral body alone, he
physical and etheric bodies. When this does happen to the practising
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 4
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forces of our ether bodies transplanted into cosmic space, we have
man as consisting of physical, etheric, astral, and also of the ego
the central power of Pluto; similarly the forces of the ether body
representing the forces of the ether body, and Zeus as representing
great spiritual Beings who lead humanity forwards, whether as Angels,
that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became
Being whom we know as Christ was not there, now the etheric and
manner of St. Paul sees into the etheric sphere of the Earth and
raise themselves ever more and more to a recognition of the etheric
Christ substance, because it reaches right down to the etheric sphere
Earth, out of the earthly dross. The Christ Being, together with the
the physical inasmuch as it is permeated by the etheric, but when the

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 5
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the ether body, Pluto as the macroscosmic representative of the
together into separate human forms could only be made by someone who
as it meets us on the physical plane is altogether maya. It
without, towards which he is focused, and he feels himself, together
himself whether everything out there in space has not been woven out
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
physical, etheric and astral bodies, for they had been fully
human soul all these forces which the human physical, etheric and
together as the waters of two rivers flow into one. Thus while the
developed physical, etheric and astral bodies, man bore in his astral
of the older and the younger Dionysos fit in wonderfully together;
lives Dionysos the younger! Whether you turn to the teaching of our
technology, whether you look at the kind of thought which has come

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 6
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found so astonishing, but which, pieced together, give us the world
that man as he stands before us consists of physical body, ether
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
the influence of forces emanating only from the physical, etheric and
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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the human being, that he consists of physical body, etheric body,
ego through the astral body down to the etheric body. As far as its
manner. It is of course quite another question whether the argument
etheric and astral bodies and so on.’ It is there that
again into etheric body, astral body and ego. And it is these images
is based on awareness that the ‘Dichter’ brings together
Earth, but who appeared to them in the etheric sphere and taught
Dionysos appeared in an etheric form in the holy Mysteries, and from
which belong together. The younger Dionysos, who, I told you, allowed
at a specific time to gather himself together again as a soul in a

Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 8
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together with what we gather from history, are a better help in this
where it was densest, still only in etheric form; that is to say, the
it were within the ether body, but the forces of this ether body were
etheric forces were in a way the forces of the physical body but they
his Lemurian development, his densest body was still an etheric one.
spiritual vision man was there at the outset in an etheric body, and
this etheric body contained those physical forces which had been
the further working of the forces of the etheric body has been, it
originating from the ether body has become since the time of Lemuria;
let this diagram represent the human ether body as it was at the
the etheric body before Lemuria, and which then condensed in such a
time of Lemuria onwards, out of specific etheric forces in our ether
crystallise out of special forces in the human etheric body which
and the heart mean to us? They are the ether-world condensed, they
are the densified forces of the etheric world! Now from the moment
the etheric body became physical, but that as regards each of our
was once etheric and had become physical, is once more dissolved, is
changed back again into the ether. That this is so, that after the
etheric forces have condensed to a system of organs they are not
is dissolved and returns to the etheric form. Just as the blood has
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 9
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As an example of this I drew attention to a kind of etherisation of
into the same substance as that of which the human ether body
consists. And we have seen that these etheric elements stream upwards
element of our etheric body streams through the brain that we are
make it clear that unless these etheric streams were to rise up from
preceding evolutions had resulted in the formation of an etheric man
physical forces, a purely etheric form. A physically solid man such
still in etheric form. This etheric human form was shadowy and
which meets the clairvoyant eye is the etheric body. For example, it
is the etheric body, stimulated by cosmic forces coming in from
flowed together in man. He would have to realise that an etheric
together out of the forms of bull and lion, with wings such as an
bull-form, together with the wings of a bird, to work upon the
Phantom which underlies it, if one weaves these elements together,
work. And here we have the four esoteric symbols which together make
everything in it which is those upper gods is there only in etheric
form, from the warmth ether upwards to the light ether, the chemical
ether and the life ether. But the sun as it moves in space today is
not only there for clairvoyant sight as an etheric structure, it is
etheric body. Thus when we look up at the sun we have to say:
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Title: Lecture: Wonders of the World: Lecture 10
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were held back, but also those of the etheric body. The result was
etheric body, but in normal consciousness is not experienced. Still
etheric body, or what through Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions he has
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
Seraphim worked together with the Spirits of Movement and the
particular use of the right hand. Thus it is the etheric and astral
vibrations, to particles of ether in motion, even to ponderable
ether and so on. This method has now for the most part been
so to say, on the other side. So that whether we go out into the
whether we penetrate below into the sphere of the sub-earthly gods,

Title: The Physical-Superphysical: Its Realisation Through Art
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sin”. Today I don't want to enlarge upon whether the
infinitely mores than she can, and because she puts together
greater prominence and what is held together in a higher life
together with Raphael in a former life on earth, when we
especially in those of today — moves altogether towards

Title: The Sources of Artistic Imagination and the Sources of Supersensible Knowledge
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creative experience. The seer knows that together with these
again, whether or no a man is able to raise this process to a
the balance determines whether the experience can or cannot
which can be altogether separate from artistic creation and

Title: Genesis: Lecture I
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whether they were higher or lower. Those Beings who wove in the

Title: Genesis: Lecture II
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us, modern science breaks down altogether. The scientists are not
so on. They are usually called etheric states, and we have always
beyond the light we come to a yet finer etheric condition, we come to
ether are those which govern the chemical affinities of matter, the
speak of a chemical of sound-ether, which has the power to decompose
but also of the finer etheric element of sound which permeates
to earth. When we mount from the sound-ether we come to a still
higher etheric condition, which also withdrew with the
haschamayim. We come to the finest etheric state of all,
which weaves within the chemical or sound-ether we have just been
about by the sound-ether is poured a still higher etheric mode. And
this higher ether permeates the sound-ether just as the meaning of
idea of this finer etheric element permeating the organising
sound-ether and giving meaning to it — the Word which
and pours itself out into the sound-ether, is at the same time the
which as the highest etheric entity lies behind their activity, there
into the etheric with haschamayim radiated answering light

Title: Genesis: Lecture III
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existed at an earlier time now came forth in etheric, in elementary
nominalism — the dispute as to whether species were merely
names, or whether they were real spiritual entities. For clairvoyant
etheric bodies. For consciousness to arise, a separation or fission
and condition it, are linked together by certain laws. And on the Moon
Sun evolution the rudiments of an etheric or life body were added;
together they are able to achieve it. We could say that their product
Elohim, that they all worked together in order to bring about at last
That sounds as if the Seven were taking counsel together, as one does
their work in common, and that at length the human etheric form

Title: Genesis: Lecture IV
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pointed out that together with the condensation of warmth into air
towards a more rarefied, more etheric condition, so that if we call
call the condition next above warmth, light, or light-ether. Thus, if
have a finer, more etheric state. I have already said that we may
give the name “sound-ether” to what works within
“ringing” or tonic ether. Alternatively, because this
weight, we might also call it the ether of numbers. Thus we rise from
solid; above, the life-ether, which is a still finer ether than the
sound-ether. So we may describe the elementary existence of the earth
and life ethers. In order to be quite sure that nothing is left vague
sound-ether permeates our nascent earth. Let us then ask ourselves
whether there is in fact any indication of such a recapitulation of
find? We should expect the sound-ether to set to work to organise
tonic or sound-ether set to work to organise matter in a certain
and to gather itself together, to contract, in the downward
Genesis account, following the intervention of the light-ether, we
see that of the sound-ether, and the second “day” of
the sound-ether has so disposed the substances that some radiate
life-ether. After the second “day” of creation something
should happen which would indicate to us that life-ether was
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Title: Genesis: Lecture V
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in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
light-ether.
with its fantastic nonsense about ether vibrations and so on, is
and darkness, working together as two real polaric entities in the
as darkness stands together on one side in opposition to the Elohim
— whether we have always to look upon these backward Beings as
our physical and etheric bodies we have to distinguish destructive
together. The backward Archai are active in the darkness. Hence the
upon our physical and etheric bodies, building them up. This
of the sound-ether broke in and separated the upper from the lower,
the sound-ether stage was recapitulated. That was on the second day
of creation. Then we saw how the life-ether intervened on the third
came forth all that can be brought about by the life-ether —

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lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and
earth, water, air and fire or warmth, light, sound-ether and
life-ether. We try to acquire ideas about the nature of earth, water,
reached the solid state, held together by their power. And if we
fits together, if the threads are woven in the right way. If you now
together all their separate talents into one common activity. All the
combined together, so as at length to produce man. Thus all the
these hierarchies had to work together to prepare for what at last
consciousness together. It is only then that the contents of his
soul-life become knit together in a conscious unity. The human being
grows to a higher stage through the bringing together of activities
main and subordinate clauses should fit so beautifully together that

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deception. He does not know whether what the pictures show is an
external spiritual reality or not; that is, he does not know whether
it is something inscribed in the Akashic record or whether he has
elementary existence light-ether, sound-ether, life-ether —
life; then what we call number, or sound-ether; then light-ether;
then warmth-ether; then we have air, or the gaseous element, the
three higher elementary states — light-ether, the ether of
spiritual sound, and life-ether — we must place them in the
earth evolution apply to the sound-ether. This would involve that
the activity of the light-ether to that of sound-ether, it would have
this phase perceived the sound-ether”; it would have to say

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intellectual or mind-soul. When the sound-ether strikes into the
under the influence of the life-ether, verdant life unfolds in
above in the ether there weaves what we call the consciousness soul,
together with the sentient and the intellectual or mind-souls.
he leaves his etheric and physical bodies lying in bed, and he
physical and etheric bodies, currents go out from it, it begins to
and etheric bodies. During the night our astral bodies are diffused
take place. Man still remains a supersensible etheric being. But a
further densification does take place within the etheric. Man still
spiritual-etheric circumference of the earth. Here we touch upon
to mature within a psycho-spiritual sphere, a more etheric sphere.
spiritual-etheric existence, and only sought denser embodiment after
water; man had still to remain in etheric existence, and it was in
fact his condensation to the stage of the etheric body that took
then an etheric condition, and then came the physical states, first
whether Paradise was situated on earth at this spot or that from
into the life of man weaving in the etheric heights, before he fell

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soul-spirits of differing characteristics, according to whether they
for the seer to recognise whether a man's soul has descended from
etheric-astral state. What was described on the third
lighter, that what previously had been etheric became transformed
into a condition somewhat resembling what we know today. The etheric
that through the formation of the sound-ether the upper substances
distinguish in him four members, the physical, etheric and astral
etheric bodies during sleep remain in the bed. When we are concerned
physical and etheric bodies as we know them today. These were only
etheric bodies, which we have to look for on the surrounding planets
outside his physical and etheric bodies, he is so to say articulated
during the day as our physical and etheric bodies was being prepared.
It was in order that these etheric and physical bodies should be able
souls were preserved on the earth. By that means the etheric and
etheric body derives from those who remained on earth. The
as far as the foundations of his physical and etheric bodies are
preserved it in his physical and etheric bodies ever since. Thus man

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the Elohim, each with his different capacity, worked together as a
male has a feminine etheric body, and the female a masculine etheric
that the physical body was more etheric and the etheric body somewhat
etheric, a densification on the side of the physical, only occurred
were at that time more etheric, more spiritual. They remained at a
the astral and then gradually condenses into the etheric-physical; it
man has acquired a higher member. But his earlier, more etheric
Man acquired an external, bodily member, and an inner, more etheric
into sound-ether and so on. The same process takes place in man at
appears on the outside, the more rarefied, etheric, invisible body
of the more etheric, more delicate man who was formed on the sixth
“day.” Thus there is a direct line from the more etheric
form, of the etheric man. If one wanted to describe the Jahve-man who
Whether we become better men in the intellectual, feeling and moral
our spirits remain united, and we try to work together to translate

Title: Initiation/Passing Moment: Lecture I
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allow these sentiments and feelings to flow into us, together with all
higher worlds. In our walks together from Weimar to Tiefurt, or around
call themselves anthroposophists must grow together in the concrete
and immediate working together toward worthy and serious aims. First

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physical body of flesh, a finer one that may be called an etheric
exist also for the etheric body. It is then particularly useful for a
hand, and on the other, in his etheric body. Man experiences himself
in the etheric body in the same way as one is conscious of the blood
To gain a clear idea of this we may consider the etheric body in
into the spiritual. One may say to oneself, “In my etheric body I
out of the etheric body, and so rests within it that it might be
representing the etheric body and the ice, the physical body
crystallised from the etheric body. An intimate connection is felt and
experienced between what may be called the etheric part of the head or
our thoughts, how we form memory images within the etheric body, and
realise how intimate is the connection of the brain with the etheric
life and to hold them together. In such a process, the etheric body
always takes a direct part, whether one knows it or not. But inwardly
out, fatigue is markedly felt in the corresponding etheric part. We
etheric part of the brain, something like a foreign body, so that one
brain must run parallel with mobility in the etheric body. You may
then have the distinct feeling that your etheric body never grows
the brain refuses to do. The etheric body never tires. Just because it
ill.” The etheric body cannot be used up, but by giving the brain
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with the issue of whether or not it is morally responsible for being
observation is really attained, it takes place at first in the etheric
We can gain some idea of all this at once if we turn to man's etheric
hand in physical existence is not essentially different whether we
whether it is the habit of performing moral actions or not.
The matter is different where a man's etheric body is concerned.
Suppose that to clairvoyant vision a man's etheric body, or some
qualities are actually expressed to some extent in his etheric body.
his etheric and astral bodies, his higher bodies if we may so call
organ crippled from birth, while the corresponding etheric organ may
of the etheric body, we can well say that such and such a form is due
to hate. Hate shows itself in this member of the etheric body in quite
Let us assume that such a being has an etheric light-body, that it is
senses become linked and fused together. Hence, other modes of feeling
together, I must add something further. On making one's way into

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ability to hold together what we experience, to reflect upon it in a
carry through because we foster this faculty of holding together what
unsubstantial and unknown; you do not even know whether you can
meditation, come to the point of being able to perceive in his etheric
example, with the hands. The feeling oneself into the etheric body is
into the etheric body, but at the same time our thoughts also expand.
get the feeling that we are growing into the etheric world that is
learning to live in the etheric body — one grows into the etheric
this etheric world fades into a kind of unconsciousness. In simple
feeling that a super-sensible world of an etheric nature is around
enter ever more and more into the etheric world. This is, after all,
The body that man lives in when once he can perceive the etheric world
is his etheric body. But this he already possessed before. The
difference between his etheric body before and after super-sensible
observation is only that through initiation the etheric body is as it
acquired of seeing some fact or being of the etheric world —
see the same. In short, the etheric world is not like the physical
everything equally well. It is not so, however, in the etheric world.
kind of being and, bit by bit, the parts of the etheric body. There
etheric body for every single human being over and over again. You set
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and experiencing oneself in the etheric and astral bodies take place.
living oneself into the etheric body seems like a flowing out, as it
occupy your soul so completely that it altogether fills it; you feel
be used together.
work together with Luciferic beings; to the extent that progressive,
The temporal and eternal thus appear as the working together of
as an ego being, together with all the blossoming of spiritual life in
it is all one whether man, when today he presses on into spiritual

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of the people, not of Lucifer. I will not say whether or not this

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his etheric body, in his astral body, and also in what may be called
racial or national evolution? Consider whether it is easy for an
mentioned here to decide whether such a history is true or untrue
physical body, but in the etheric body.
In truth, in ordinary life, also, man thinks with his etheric body,
with his etheric body. Fundamentally, man is always thinking; his
etheric body is always in motion, and it is this motion that
constitutes thinking. But, of all this activity in the etheric body,
conceive of a certain relation of the etheric body to the physical
see it when it is reflected. The etheric body is in a perpetual flow
physical body reflects what is going on in the etheric body. This
etheric body is there all the time, but a man ordinarily knows nothing
etheric body, which actually does the thinking, may know something of
physical body. This thinking has its seat in the etheric body, and
his etheric body. Then, on reaching this inner experience and
grown together with the earth, yet at the same time he was growing
offers, look at it together with all its connections, and it will be
the means given in the etheric. What thus we are allowed to tell of
darkness, will enable us to be together no matter where we are nor how
been together physically, but this will not always be so. We are
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etheric body to the physical body is loosened, even partly withdrawn.
being — the physical and etheric bodies, the sentient, rational and
times, the etheric body had to be slightly separated from the physical
Of the etheric body He said, “Formerly, men could be healed of
possess soul powers with which they can penetrate into the etheric.
Thus, in future, Christ will become visible to mankind in the etheric
same whether a person lives in the physical world here on earth or has
reappear in the etheric body — now it is an absolute necessity to
etheric body. This manifestation will take the form of a natural
new world of the spirit will be the etheric Christ. No matter what
etheric Christ are perhaps in a more difficult situation than those

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kingdom: that a whole group belongs together — that was existing
back to ancient times. Groups of human beings then belonged together,
Saturn character, the etheric body Sun character, the astral body Moon
etheric or life-body. Whereas a person should exert himself to come to
physical body, goes further to the etheric or life-body, and says:
connection, it is chance whether a human soul is in a body of flesh,
whether they are in the one or other condition. Thus we speak a speech
incarnation strove together for the individual “I.”

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together, and then, when we have convinced ourselves of this, can we
flowed together streamed together into the event of Palestine, in
to flow on together. All of these single streams are today within
streams also. Many different things had to come together and combine
clairvoyant as pure astral-etheric streams. But later, these pure
spirit streams dried up, as it were, condensed to etheric-physical
being. Our hair is a dried-up astral-etheric stream. And such things
to the age of puberty, in which the etheric body is active in the

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bringing them together before the soul, one can come to the true
understand. One must first bring together those ideas which make it
whether his thinking, feeling, willing was called) — these single
with the immersion in water, they got their etheric bodies so free,
the etheric body became free for a moment. Through the baptism in the
Jesus draws together all those who are seeking fish. Therefore all his
is just the same with man. He is only a streaming together of forces

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nature, the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the
two principles, with the physical and etheric bodies. But when we are
body with the etheric body remain lying on the bed, and the astral
the physical and etheric bodies at night, while in the astral body
body to be imprinted upon the etheric body, even as a seal is stamped
themselves on the etheric body.
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
body, have to work together to this end. Now there are greater
difficulties for the etheric body than for the astral body in this
asleep the astral body and ego withdraw from the physical and etheric
outside our physical and etheric bodies for at least a certain time
during each twenty-four hours. But the etheric body does not leave
etheric body, which then withdraws along with the astral body and the
astral body and the etheric body are then united in an appropriate
fashion and can work together. Therefore it is that from the moment
the etheric body during life if complete clairvoyance is to be
brought about. The etheric body must be liberated from the condition
exercises for giving the etheric body independence and freedom from
moment of death that the astral body and the etheric body can work
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reality for spiritual perception. And now let us see whether in this
is composed of Physical, Etheric, Astral bodies and ego, and that
arose on Old Saturn, on Old Sun the Etheric body was added, and on

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N view of what has been said we may ask whether all the spiritual beings in
existence are to be found behind the phenomena of the sense world, or whether
of history altogether. He may find himself faced with the question:
whether the initiate of modern days sees him in the same form? The

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see behind the veil of our own soul-life depends upon whether this
events have been brought together under the direction of those powers
belonged to the Nether World and were rulers of the soul life.
beings holding together and coordinating external phenomena. When he
whether it be the external spiritual world or the external sense

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beings of etheric substance, who did not descend to the density of a
etheric nature, in the shape of the external world of the gods. It
merely of ether but just as the etheric, the astral and the ‘I’
had an etheric body for their lowest principle and their other,
beings visible around me to spiritual sight from the etheric world
am the All.’ And they took the two together to mean the
on the etheric plane. There Zeus, Apollo, Mars, Wotan, Odin, Thor,
a concept, but an etheric reality, a being which spoke to them as a
the upper regions and the other in the nether regions; then the

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envelopes of the physical, etheric and astral bodies, yet the nature
otherwise than they grew to be later on. The etheric body did not
it has done since. Formerly the etheric body of the head, for
of evolution is expressed by the very fact that the etheric and
closer. Now it is in the etheric body that all the forces necessary
between them. In the humanity of Atlantis the forces of the etheric
permeation of the physical body by the etheric body, that in no part
perceived the etheric body extending far beyond the physical body.
vision perceived the etheric body still extending, especially as
characteristic of etheric nature. It arose from all things, for they
a seeing of the etheric element, which was spread out over everything
civilisation is to cause the etheric body to descend deeper and
which the etheric body is organised. And this in its turn is
the physical by the etheric body is already a thing of the past; a
live in an era in which the etheric body is slowly emerging from the
consist in the gradual emergence of the etheric body from the
and we shall again see the etheric body spreading out beyond the
our physical organisation. At the time when the etheric body was
this etheric body man experienced this consciously as a cosmic
descending into his etheric body from the spiritual world also worked
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being consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body, sentient
man the different members, physical body, etheric body, astral body
and so on are gathered together and grouped around his Ego, so were
cognition. For our modern methods of acquiring knowledge, whether by
old Indian people, the etheric body was to a far greater extent
could make use of this etheric body and of its organs if he gave
understanding; I make use of the organ of the etheric body.’
out of his physical body into his etheric body, and from there he
proceeding from the divine world. With his etheric organs he saw the
around himself an etheric, cosmic net, wove it out of the thoughts of
(whether it be in this or any other form, even in the form in which
feelings that are to be found on the ethereal heights of thought, we
is to be found in the spiritual worlds, whether upon the outward or
Indian felt: ‘Whether on the one side I go outwards or on the
The characteristic of an etheric body which was still to a great
of old Persia; the etheric body had by that time slipped very much
civilisation could no longer use the instruments of the etheric body
Astral Body, Consciousness Soul, Etheric Body, and Physical Body.
we have seen, the old Indian made use of his etheric body when he
through the etheric body the highest unity was hidden from him, but
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the Christ comes under a different category altogether. The Christ
whether the seven holy Rishis or even higher beings who do not
lived in the etheric body of Gautama Buddha, so such an one also
His teachings, but through His life. We may gather together all the
clairvoyance in consequence of the relation of the etheric body to
human progress; in old India wisdom was absorbed through the etheric
development is expressed. Manes called these persons together to
were the personalities brought together by Manes in that memorable
witnessed by spiritual sight.) He called together the personality in
lived in Gautama Buddha became a Christian. Whether this be a matter
understand only by gathering together all the wisdom of the
having the right feeling. We meet together for the purpose of

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earth. We are together with the one who died before, at the same time
we know quite clearly that we are together with the other being. It is
those who have died and with whom we were together on the earth, or to
knows that he is together with him but he is unable to emerge from
approach the human being. Now again it depends on whether we have
them, or whether we are compelled to pass them by as hermits. Whether
quite correspond because there they are brought together according to
the Sun sphere and be together with them, to understand them, to be a
beings with whom we were together on the earth, and then into the
Throne we now learn to know the other Being who, together with the
the starry realms, as it were. Then we begin to draw together again,
karma is formed according to the way we have lived together with the
result of having been together with those human beings after death.
and he gathered together what he derived from the cosmos. He is
physical, etheric and astral bodies, and in the ego. Of course, the
the etheric body. These forces can only approach us between death and
sphere, and so the forces that are needed in the etheric may be
are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the midst of them.”
greatest possible activity of the etheric body in sleep, then he
corresponds with the posture of the etheric body. I am not suggesting
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together with the other person in a next incarnation in such a way
this karmic adjustment are welded together technically, as it were.
Let us take an example. Two people are living together. One of them
our trials in the kamaloca period it is therefore immaterial whether
ego-consciousness or whether they dwell in our astral
Suppose two people are living together on earth. One of them is a
people irrespective of whether they are living or dead. Out of an
because he realizes that things are simply there whether he be aware of
forces essential to a proper building up of the astral and etheric
whether we have received the Mystery of Golgotha into the innermost

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hierarchies approach us. Whether we encounter them so that we can
influences to man's physical being depends on whether the
Whether a human soul is called upon to become the servant of the good
powers as described above depends on whether the soul concerned has
utterly nonsensical to ask whether the spiritual powers might not

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There are many other facts that may keep a soul in the etheric sphere
use such an expression, is altogether different from that of the men
spiritual heights only as far as the etheric body. It is possible for
Now these inscriptions work together in a remarkable way. They are
answered, “I do not know whether I shall ever be able to

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altogether consciously during the devachanic
These things are linked together; their
which you have patched together in your mind
past, who has brought together in his own way a plausible clear

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whether already clairvoyant or wishing to become so, it should of
forces, he does away with one side altogether.
without troubling themselves in the least as to whether their
always asks whether everything man acquires by his thinking in the
separate worlds were to get mixed up together. We emphasized a moment

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altogether impossible in the elemental world, where it would lead
etheric body, which lives by preference in the elemental world. Now
his etheric body as capable of transformation as it has to be in the
physical sense world we must allow our etheric body, as an entity of
physical body, the mobility of the etheric body is restrained only
for the time being. As soon as the etheric body sinks back into the
physical encasement, its powers of movement are held together and
adapted to the form. If the etheric body were not tucked into the
were to carry over into the physical world this desire of its etheric
it into a definite personality. The etheric body, which always wants
because his etheric brings over into the physical world the impulse
and if her etheric body has been loosened, she may imagine that she
never live permanently in this mobile element. The etheric body could
so something similar is necessary for the life of the etheric body in
comes in the elemental world when the etheric body feels, “I
together certain parts of the soul and rest within oneself. In the
soon as we enter the elemental world and move with our etheric body,
together in the elemental world, we will fall into a kind of faint.
etheric body has the elemental world as its environment, it is
through the innate character of the etheric body that the drive to
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this world whose characteristics are altogether different from the
too, outside the physical and etheric bodies can observe itself
equal vertical lines joined together at the top. You don't go through
scenery raked together from well-known physical pictures — that
sounding together, form the Cosmic Word in which our own soul being —

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but she had a peculiar habit. When something not altogether pleasant
would clasp her hands together and twirl her thumbs around each
her hands together and twirling her thumbs, but finally she said,
was really very fond of Father Felix, he could not altogether hear
mixed up together, the schools insisted on the pupils' learning the
authoritarian principle that belongs to writing — whether it be
two polar opposites, Lucifer and Ahriman, are working together at the

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relationships, images of the harmonious working together of opposites
spiritual initiatives and aims together. Nations writing a different
handwriting many people have to mix together both scripts. Such an
combine and mix together the elements of these five; the art of the
[*Published together with
together from the impressions of the physical world and from
body, he is having those experiences in his etheric body with the
whatever our experience, whether painful or joyous, whatever it is
Whether you see a stone, a plant, a cloud, or lightning —

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organism, he goes on living in the etheric body, with the elemental
When a person has shed his etheric body also, he ascends to the spirit world
domain, a tendency arises for those parts of man's etheric and astral
physical body, but we can be in an etheric body on entering the
elemental world and still see this etheric body from outside as one
the etheric body. We retain part of that body, but another part of it
fragment — essentially a part of his etheric body — is
away a substantial part of the etheric body and, as it were, ensoul
etheric body in the elemental and spiritual worlds.

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world, to use our time together in a more positive way. But it must
and Ahriman now are in league together in a kind of partnership in
knotted together externally. In ancient times the skeins of influence
them tangled and knotted together within the development of our
he enters the elemental world and lives in his etheric body, just as
leaves the etheric body clairvoyantly, he lives in the astral body
etheric body for a short time, perhaps only a few days; then we put
etheric body, we are at first within the astral body; in the astral
body the soul goes on a sort of further journeying. The etheric body
continual change. The etheric body, separated now from the human
attention to the destinies of its own etheric body. The soul's outer
world, its environment, consists of the transformations our etheric
the elemental world takes our etheric body into itself. If one has
will see how poorly the etheric body (for it has had its share in
it is everywhere rejected. Even though our etheric body has been laid
ever-changing fate of our etheric body, we are made aware of what we
to his own etheric body. Anthroposophy teaches the truth, that this
looking back on the etheric body and on the destinies we have brought
formed by beings similar to the human etheric body and by the
the human etheric body itself. One can describe this pictorially and
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The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric
beings in the etheric world, not His return in a physical body. The
themes covered here are the etherization of the blood and the three
person is about to drown, the connection of the etheric body to the
physical body is loosened — the etheric body is even partly
the physical and etheric bodies, the sentient, rational, and
etheric body had to be slightly separated from the physical body,
Of the etheric body He said, “Formerly, men could be healed of
capable of penetrating into etheric vision through their soul forces.
Christ will thus become visible to human beings in an etheric and not
way. It is therefore the same whether a person lives in the physical
etheric body — now it is necessary to distinguish such things
Christ Who appears in the etheric body. This appearance will take the
The leader in this new kingdom of the spirit will be the etheric
actually have the experience of the etheric Christ are perhaps in a

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themes belong together. First, we will devote ourselves to the
has the body of etheric forces that penetrates the physical
body, as is true for every living being. This ether body
body we carry in us. Etheric and physical body are successive
ice. Thus we have ice in water. So it is that the etheric and
indicates significant conditions of the etheric and astral

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second member the etheric or life body, which he has in common
Were the etheric body to withdraw from the physical body, in
impressions from founders of religion man works on his ether
physical body, its etheric body and its astral body in the
and, from out the astral body, gradually change the etheric and
important depends upon whether our feelings, our soul, indeed,
life. It is not so that anthroposophists come together because
human being must learn to feel and perceive whether he is

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together are of less importance than a fifteenth who comes, perhaps,
standing before us. Man is a combination of physical body, etheric
man's nature, from the etheric and physical bodies. But even then it
physical body is alone only at death, when the etheric body too has
dim clairvoyance was carried over into the etheric body. Just as a
impress itself into the etheric body and this in turn moulded the
a seal into wax, into the etheric body and a certain part of the
etheric body moulded an organ in the interior of the human ear,
the etheric body and the organs of the physical body.
the etheric body. Hence those who have no knowledge of the astral and
etheric bodies cannot understand the physical body. The astral body is
the predecessor of the etheric body and the etheric body is the

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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
the forces which hold the physical body together. Where, then, are we
the physical world together there are forces which are to be found in
Man has his second member, the etheric or life-body, in common with
forces. If you could think away the physical body, the etheric body
etheric body an etheric heart; this etheric heart contains certain
physical heart formed out of the etheric heart; it is simply a
hardened etheric heart and the streams of force in the etheric heart
body, you would see that the etheric body, especially in the upper
great differentiation within the etheric body; you will realise that
this is so when I tell you that the etheric body in the male is female
incomprehensible in practical life. The etheric body appears like a
of the physical body. The human being has the etheric body in common
with the plants. It is the same with the etheric as with the physical
body: the forces which hold the etheric body together are found in the
All the forces, which hold the etheric body together, lie one stage
lower than those which hold the physical body together. The
human etheric body and lives within you without your being aware of
the animal is held together by forces which have their seat in the
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together with what has been worked upon in the astral body by the ego,
withdraw from the physical and etheric bodies. When you observe the
sleeping human being clairvoyantly, physical body and etheric body lie
astral body emerges together with the higher members; with
into the etheric and physical bodies.
but is still connected with the etheric body. Man's field of vision is
in a certain way, with the etheric body.
his physical and etheric bodies. The fact that he must sink into sleep
it is outside the physical and etheric bodies. During the day, when
the astral body is within the physical and etheric bodies, influences
man, and the physical body, together with the etheric body, is only
builder of the etheric and physical bodies. Just as the physical body
with all its organs has hardened out of the etheric body, so
everything that streams and is active in the etheric body has been
from this ocean and having passed into an etheric body and a physical
Now the astral body is the builder of the etheric body and indirectly
— because the etheric body is in turn the builder of the physical
body in building the etheric and physical bodies is originally sound
etheric body passes away together with the astral body and the
until death the etheric body never leaves the physical body except
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Thus the human being himself gathers together his astral body. These
These incipient human beings must now receive an etheric body and a
forces they themselves had developed. But the forming of the etheric
human being alone; in respect of the forming of an etheric body, man
perfect accordance between the astral body and the etheric and
will afford the best possible opportunity of receiving an etheric and
the etheric body to the astral body and whose rank is similar to that
and the rudiments of a common etheric body. This lives within a kind
this nature are the Beings who guide the ether-formations around the
memory-picture. When the human being passes into his etheric body but
etheric body extends only slightly beyond the physical body, in the
case of idiots portions of the etheric body are often to be seen as an
etheric sheen extending far beyond the head. Here is a case where

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etheric body and has, for a brief moment, a pre-vision of the life
child learn to think together, when they share experiences in common,
equally vital and intimate. The two are together, only all the purely
together with what is taking place on the earth.
a new etheric body by Beings of a rank similar to that of the
Folk-Spirits. This etheric body is not perfectly adapted to the
through the etheric body, he is drawn to the folk and to the family in
of attraction to the father. The etheric body attracts the human being
“ 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
Therefore what was said about the etheric body holds good still more
average man of modern times; what has been said does not altogether
etheric bodies. These products of decay found good soil in the fear
among the European peoples an industrial proletariat, and together

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shaped like a sort of flower-calyx, playing around his etheric and
the etheric and astral bodies like a wounding arrow.
together to form a good astral body for him. What he had incorporated
together the new etheric body, and from the highest regions of
to the etheric body in the next incarnation and imbues it with lasting
propensities. The etheric body of a man who experiences much happiness
That of which the etheric body is the bearer in the present life
acquisition, the bearer of this quality being the etheric body. On the
— this tendency in the etheric body gives rise, in the next life,
the astral body appears again in the etheric body; the lasting
impulses and passions that are rooted in the etheric body appear in
etheric body; what the etheric body does becomes the destiny of the
which you yourselves are not aware. The etheric body is worked upon by
that in the astral body and in the etheric body, as well as in the
astral body — if I may so express it. The etheric body is also
created by your etheric body and the “phantoms” created by
whole, has an effect upon the whole world according to whether he
You have just heard that forces which lie in the etheric body work upon
in pure details; the Spirit binds together, for Spirit is Unity!

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in the etheric and astral bodies before passing through the Elemental
living in his etheric body. He has a strange experience in connection
feels his etheric body growing and expanding as if it embraced the
Then, when the etheric body has been abandoned, another very
together when they return to the Earth, in order that the law of Karma
taken together, these entries tell him the state of his business. The
by the higher members of his being; Ego, astral body, etheric body and
is the most perfect; the etheric body is less perfect, the astral body
permeated by the etheric body. When these two bodies had worked
together for a time, the astral body was added, and then, finally, the
If we could mingle Earth and Moon, together with all their substances
only principle was that of the physical body; the etheric body was
all if the Earth, in its evolutionary course, had not come together
etheric body on Jupiter will have reached the stage at which the

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express his suffering and joy in tones, only these, together with man,
physical body was prepared on Saturn; on the Sun was added the Etheric
Sun it was much more complicated, for then the etheric body worked on
as yet no etheric body had interpenetrated it, all the organs it
etheric body, astral body and ego have worked on it. So too the
the etheric body was inserted, the sense organs were further
together, the picture-consciousness and the waking day-consciousness.
will sound together in a symphony. This will be the consciousness of

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body is then outside the physical and etheric bodies, but remains
in the sleeping man we have the physical, the etheric and the astral
interpenetrated with the etheric body, while above hovered over them
now imagine that the human being has died, that even his etheric body
purely physical body; it was surrounded, so to speak, by an etheric
being consists of four members: Physical body, Etheric body, Astral
The next higher is the etheric body, then the astral body and the ego.
member is the etheric body. They have no need of the physical body in
obtain if you were to mix together as in a cauldron all that is on the
sun, the moon and the earth, together with all the terrestrial and
the etheric body drew into the prepared physical body below. The Sun
interpenetrated by the etheric body. You yourselves belonged to a body
of air, as on Saturn to a body of warmth. Your etheric body was
into the physical and etheric bodies, just as today in sleep when your
astral body is outside it works upon the physical and the etheric
hold of by the etheric body and transformed. When you compare the body
able to do so by virtue of having an etheric body. Its body,
penetrated by an etheric body, did as the plant does today with the
as physical and etheric bodies. These light streams divided in

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developed to the degree of having a physical body and an etheric body,
Sun, inasmuch as they had an etheric body, brought to expression in
etheric body and which had therefore in a certain respect remained
because they were permeated by an etheric body.
between Sun and Moon, they were still together as in the Sun period.
together you would have that Moon of which we are speaking and which
substances together with the spiritual beings. As long as it was a
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
atmosphere surrounding the Moon, just as formerly the etheric body had
beings whose external sheath was the etheric body. They consisted of
etheric body, astral body, ego, Spirit-self, Life-spirit and
them as phantom-like beings in their etheric body; they had at that
then after they had gone through this dormant state together, a new

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enclosed in the human body was altogether lacking. That was contained
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
(physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego). It is now for the

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present man the physical body is masculine, the etheric body feminine,
masculine etheric body. These facts open up an interesting insight
masculinity of the etheric body, whereas the ambition of the man is
explained when we realise the feminine nature of his etheric body. I
etheric body emanates from the moon and the stronger influence on the
physical body is influenced by the forces of the moon and the etheric
blood, into a substance of death. Together with man's individual
If, as seer, you wished to examine the connection between the etheric
remarkable discovery. Whereas in the man of today the etheric head is
protrudes slightly beyond it, in the old Atlantean the etheric head
centimetre lower, and a second point in the etheric head which would
point of the etheric head drew in to the physical brain and by reason
of these two points coming together there developed what we possess
were put together by what was given by nature; he moulded the stones
and bound them together with the growing trees. His dwellings were
definite union with the etheric body and thus an increase of the
spirit into substance, whether in sculpture or in the drama. Here too

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to future events. He can tell you definitely that if he mixes together
combination. Whether you do it, however, depends on your will;
the etheric body of some other being proceeds from the medium. That
time when the etheric body united with the point in the brain of which
truth, valid for all men, find themselves together in the one truth.
striving be a uniform one, then all men find themselves together. But
together in harmony.
Or would you put it to the vote as to whether the three angles of a
triangle are equal to 180 degrees? Whether millions of people admit
is our task to bind together through the unifying bonds of spiritual
countenance of their intellectual work, one can observe whether or not
the human being will be able to draw his etheric body out of his
will lie entirely with humanity as to whether a soul will remain in
So a certain group of people must join together in order to prepare

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works down on the etheric body and thence on to the blood and this is
increasingly more able to work on his organism through his etheric
outside. The human body is, as it were, pieced together from what was
spread outside it, each separate member of your physical body, etheric

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wish to enter into the thing more deeply must ask whether perhaps
mixed together with the feminine and vice versa. This embryo of
etheric body which the human has in common with animals and plants.
we will concern ourselves with the physical and etheric bodies. For
herein lies the solution to the riddle of the sexes. The etheric body
regard to the sexes things are different. In the man the etheric body
clear to us if we think of human nature as the working together
question; it depends on whether one looks at the inner, or the outer
the ego are raised out of the physical-etheric organism of the human
physical and etheric bodies a densification of the astral body.
etheric bodies remain behind. Thus it follows that during sleep the
physical and etheric body which makes the two sexes manifest here on
transforms it into the solid trunk. Life and form must work together
can be created through life and death together. On this basis
spiritual and physical can work together through the medium of

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constitution and we then speak of his physical body, etheric body,
another, this complex, consisting of physical body, etheric body,
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
etheric body are entrenching themselves more and more firmly in the
clairvoyance, due to the greatest freedom of the etheric body and the
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
altogether different state of things. The important fact to bear in
the future, will chain the astral and etheric bodies to itself, and
the Hierarchies into his physical and etheric bodies. And if, as he
force of the etheric body that is tied to the physical body. Thus we
knit more and more closely together. Many things that in our time may
Why is this? An etheric body that is less firmly knit to the physical
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karma has brought us together here instead, it may be useful to speak
being to develop; the astral body had developed earlier, the etheric
consisted of three members only: physical body, etheric body, astral
the animals. They consist of physical body, etheric body and astral
consists in the fact that the animal has physical body, etheric body
physical body, etheric body and astral body, his nature was never the
acting as it were with full moral responsibility — choose whether he
from the seventh to the fourteenth years the etheric body, from the
the development of the etheric body has been completed, man reaches
consider what form this takes in the animal kingdom.) When the etheric
development of the etheric body is complete it is possible for a human
soon as the development of his etheric body is complete. What factor
when the etheric body is completely developed. What, then, is added?
acquire after the full development of his etheric body cannot enrich
etheric body has fully developed, that is to say, at about the
again from there into the functioning of the etheric body can only
have the effect of weakening the forces of the etheric body which
back into the etheric body from the astral body, contributes only to
merit on his part. These two things belong together. The best way of
had only physical body, etheric body and astral body, and he evolves
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body; and in the old Indian, what we call the etheric or life body.
physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body. You must now
etheric or life body, on the old Sun, and that now a special
done upon the etheric or life-body during the old Sun; man came upon the
earth already in possession of an etheric body. But this body can now
which man has developed. So that naturally man's etheric body is at a
but in this post-Atlantean period he works upon his etheric body with
says: I have three sheaths, my physical body, my etheric body, and my
development: their physical body, etheric or life body, and astral
altogether hateful; but because he develops himself as a parasite by
what can now be taught concerning the human ether body; he said that
physical body, the etheric body and the astral body, and the
close to the condition of a corpse, and was only held together by the
was falling away from him — because it could only be held together by
Christ Spirit clothed Himself with an etheric body condensed, one
in an etheric body condensed to physical visibility; and thus He went
visible to everyone, because it was actually only a condensed etheric
etheric body contracts in a special way and forms a kind of scar. And
in the specially contracted ether body, from which were drawn the
constituents of the new ether body with which the Christ clothed
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because the members of a Group who have worked together and
impressions are mixed together and arise as if they were all
are mixed together, just as if false and true trees were
This experiment can be made as follows. We place together all
together in this way. Then we look upon outer events which
being must use his etheric body as a mirror, as far as his
reflected through the etheric body, just as the
etheric body. Since our etheric body is generally unknown to
know this etheric body before we learn to know what enters
can be reflected through the etheric body.
etheric body no longer exists — that part which during
general life-ether which is now the reflecting instrument and
others suffices — whether or not one is really

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upon our world — when He enters it in an etheric form, from out
described to you something, whether it be described through regular
training or whether it appears in the form of natural clairvoyance,
whether it be coloured pictures, or anything else — we are not
of as a part of man's etheric body — not only as a part of the
etheric body, however, but also as certain forces of the physical
Furthermore, a great part of what we must term man's etheric body
sub-consciousness, Whether or not a human being has a more
indicated here (b―c). Whether man knows, or fails to know,
of his blood, upon his breathing-system, upon his etheric body. Let
is especially the activity of the etheric body, and all its
etheric body), but that owing to it, there is a continual influence
of breathing and of the etheric body, their influence upon the
and the forces of the etheric body; and the consequence of this
circulation, his breathing, and his etheric body. He cannot harm the
clearness, when that part of the etheric body which has remained (for
the etheric body is continually connected with the force of warmth in
does not apply the test as to whether or not these pictures are
etheric body — as well as upon what we have here described as
what appears before him as a living etheric Being, extending out into
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altogether impossible in the elemental world, where it would lead
been speaking about is a peculiarity of the human etheric body, which
were to go back into the physical world keeping his etheric body as
must allow our etheric body, as an entity of the elemental world
physical body, the mobility of the etheric body is restrained only
for the time being. As soon as the etheric body sinks back into the
physical encasement, its powers of movement are held together and
adapted to the form. If the etheric body were not tucked into the
over into the physical world this desire of its etheric body for
into a definite personality. The etheric body, which always wants to
his etheric brings over into the physical world the impulse to free
her etheric body has been loosened, she may imagine that she has been
this mobile element. The etheric body could as little remain
necessary for the life of the etheric body in the elemental world.
world when the etheric body feels, ‘I cannot go on continually
together certain parts of the soul and rest within oneself. In the
our etheric body, thoughts become — one can say — denser,
do not hold ourselves together in the elemental world, we will fall
Above all, when we have left the physical body and our etheric body
character of the etheric body that the drive to transform ourselves
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the deepest mysteries of our solar system. Together with his
that the etheric body dissolves after a human being has died;
is not the case that the etheric bodies of all human beings
are dissolved in the universal ether. Etheric bodies such as
these initiates were woven into their etheric bodies, and it
etheric bodies of the great initiates had simply been
the Sun Oracle to preserve the etheric bodies of the seven
group of simple people to Asia, He carried the etheric bodies
could wrap up etheric bodies and put them into boxes for
safekeeping. What is certain, however, is that etheric bodies
himself again with a new etheric body. Now, through the
into this new etheric body an old one that was preserved. And
sufficiently prepared to have the preserved etheric bodies of
into their own etheric bodies. Thus, the preserved etheric
Leader of the Sun Oracle, the etheric body of the Mars
initiate into another, the etheric body of the Jupiter
the Sun Oracle had seven individuals whose etheric bodies
their etheric bodies contained the forces of the seven great
re-embodiment of the ego, but rather of the etheric bodies of
— the etheric body — is capable of reincarnation.
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them together? It is what we call the Ego in its true sense, the bearer of
explained, when a man goes to sleep his physical and etheric bodies remain in
etheric bodies? There are good reasons for it. Spiritual Science says that
the Ego and astral body must come back into the etheric and physical bodies
and etheric bodies — especially by the etheric body — as from a
and Sentient Soul, all have to work on the physical and etheric bodies, so
physical and etheric bodies. When he is nearing sleep and the faculty that
etheric bodies. These bodies, with their particular aptitudes, are there at
every morning, on returning from sleep, we find our physical and etheric
this centre holds the members of the human organism together. Even in the
organism together as a unity, is lost, and the limbs, each going its own way,
point which holds together the members of his bodily organism. And if we
year, the etheric body, particularly, can be developed. Then comes a third
between the etheric body and the second period of life, and therefore with
etheric body. If during the period from the seventh to the fourteenth year we
supply the etheric body with forces that will prevent it from creating these
teachers, can strengthen his etheric forces so that in later life he will
encounter the least possible obstacles in his etheric body. Then he will be
teachers knew of these things, whether by instinct or by inspiration.
because the physical, etheric and astral bodies are still plastic in young

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a second member of man's being: we call it the etheric body or life-body.
Only a brief reference can here be made to the etheric body — our task
etheric body in common with everything that lives. As I said, only the
seeing into the spiritual world, can directly observe the etheric body. But
obey them is that during life an antagonist of dissolution, the etheric or
physical body, etheric body or life-body, astral or consciousness-body.
for his existence, together with confidence and hope when he looks towards
grow stronger and stronger and will then transmute the etheric body or
life-body. Life-spirit is the name we give to the transformed etheric
for transmuting his instincts, desires and so forth. In the etheric body the
tongue. I replied: Certainly this might be possible, but whether the
principle is brought into being by the work of the Ego on the etheric body:
two things belong together; without the other, neither can exist. In life

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water, their etheric bodies were momentarily loosened and in
do forces streaming together from above and from below out of
well be at a different place altogether from the point where
being, apart altogether from the outer appearance. An old man
had gathered together at this particular point. And when this
together at the point where the physical body is present. For

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
Christ on the astral plane as an Ether Form.
vision, a “College“ of twelve wise men came together. All
development was altogether unique; the profound spirituality he bore
worked through his ether body, always with the purpose of influencing
ether-body, inspiring all that was done in the West to establish the

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
should and will come together who have trust in one another. And in
ether as being in matter and outside, and it was taken for granted
of the ether.’ The answer was: Purely mathematical constructions,
these, light does not spread through space by means of ether
together by the results of so-called intellectual research and its
etherically visible Christ more and more clearly in the course of the
appear only in etheric form. Spiritual Science wishes to prepare
etheric form.
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies. The ego could only

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and the living etheric reality of Christ today and the future stages of
on the astral plane in an etheric form.
a council of twelve wise men came together. All the spiritual
development was altogether unique; the profound spirituality he bore
worked through his etheric body, always with the purpose of
from his ether body, inspiring all that was done in the West to
the two streams work together, the stream of the Maitreya Buddha and

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together by the forces of ordinary consciousness. But from
arise from our own inner life are mixed together. How are we to
experiment for everyone. We could gather together all the
consciousness, so must the human being make use of his etheric
lives in them must be reflected by the etheric body, just as
learn to manage our ether body, and it is entirely natural
since our etheric body is usually unknown to us, although it
reflected by this ether body.
Kamaloca the physical body is gone, even part of the etheric
us — but the universal life-ether surrounding us serves
intellectual laws act together as one.
event, whether a mere activity of nature or not, is at bottom
together and carry over into feelings, which through their

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Christ from the astral plane into our world in an etheric form.
subconsciously, within the human soul, whether developed by
only upon a part of the etheric body, but upon certain forces
addition a large part of what is called the human etheric body.
described above. (See diagram b–c). Whether the person in
circulation of his blood, his breathing system, and his etheric
subconscious feelings. The activity of his etheric body
conditions of blood, of the breathing power, and of the etheric
the circulation, breathing, and the forces of the etheric body.
circulation of his blood, his breathing system, and etheric
distinctly visible when what remains of the etheric body has
been influenced in this way; for the etheric body is in
the Akashic Record; if he does not test them to see whether or
etheric or his physical body. He would observe the action
a living etheric being going out into the world. Do not regard
form it, how they issue from the human etheric body and build

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easy to realise that everything depends on whether the human
this experience can already show us whether it is supersensible
distinguish whether one dedicates himself to a belief or to the
physical body and etheric body are lying in the bed, and astral

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Then it depends with the progress on this way whether one gets
everything is thrown together.
conscientious spiritual research together. One soul direction
ground of truth. Only experience can teach us whether this is
together, and who — because they often succeed in
name, but lump everything together. The direction of the
those, however, who throw together spiritual research and
science and throw it together with charlatanism, the

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when observing nature. But no one asks whether it is permissible to
history is written, for little seems to depend upon whether or not the
people. No other method would do. I am not speaking now about whether
it is permissible or not, whether it is right or wrong to try to
decided something together which we both valued and which led us to a
whether we have this thought at nine in the morning, at noon, or at
which bring these people together do not rest upon mutual knowledge.
These subconscious impulses bind us together here on earth, but they

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exist, together with us, in which their impulses are active, then we

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altogether are only I myself, all you together in your
whether they want to lead it astray. The soul must be able to say:

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whether it's acquired or natural, or if one feels compelled to write
such experiences. One should try to find out whether Lucifer or

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astral body and part of the etheric body out of the physical body,
and so we can have strange experiences in our etheric body in the
etheric body preserved it and through our development 30 or 40 years
this. This happens when the etheric body is loosened in development,
astral body are reflected in the etheric body. The esoteric
etheric body thereby, but also vibrations of a similar kind that were
long ago, but the experience emerges from the etheric body
physical ear didn't hear them, but our etheric body took them in. And
etheric body. Such things can scare us if we don't understand them.
experienced there in the etheric body arose like a world out of a

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notice it. For the forces that loosen the etheric body and pull it
out of the physical body are in all of these exercises, whether
already, but it makes a difference whether it's sleeping or waking in
and second together and the third maybe only on Sundays.
but in the spiritual one they flow together. Something that's thought
far one has gotten; whether for instance one already experiences

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on himself? We know that man's etheric body is born at age
sheath. The etheric body should then be prepared rightly for its
live in us are unfolded in our etheric body from age 7 to 14, and
all new things The etheric body becomes completely developed between
then his etheric body isn't soft and flexible at this age.
affairs. Their etheric body is hardened and it takes a great effort
acceptance of theosophical teachings as the etheric hindrances, since
the etheric body is a much denser mass than the astral body.
through his ego? We received a physical body on Saturn. The etheric
condition whereas the etheric body was in the Saturn condition. On
the etheric body in the Sun condition, and only the physical body in

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earth consists of the tetralogy: physical body, etheric body, astral
gradually work on our etheric body in such a way that it becomes
is not directly on the etheric body but on the astral body or soul
into the esoteric pupil together with his memory of the spiritual

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We're in divine, etheric
etheric bodies in the meantime. We should go to sleep with reverence
Christ who will become perceptible in the etheric. We must prepare

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beings. Theosophy works on men whether they bring a receptivity for
latter work upon them, their etheric body begins to oscillate
an expanded and rarified etheric body. When such a person hears some
cleft in the etheric body, which announced itself in him as fear, but
his rarified etheric body as into a vacuum and have become noticeable
creatures that corresponds to the forces of our etheric body, from

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whether the images that emerge there are purely spiritual or whether
etheric body would leave the physical body for even a moment? The
nothing. The etheric body tends to spread out into the widths of
body shrinks because the etheric body doesn't work in there anymore
to our etheric body during meditation. The etheric body streams and spreads
the moment of death when the physical body releases the etheric body;
when the etheric body feels as if it's dissolved in space. And
wasn't there to pull the etheric body back together again
dishonest in daily life, the lies stream into space with his etheric
with the etheric body. Through the relation of these figures to our
otherwise one would pollute the etheric substance that should radiate

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time we saw that the etheric body pours out into space. This
whom we get together, with whom our etheric body becomes connected.
human being. Now when the etheric body expands during meditation
with the etheric body. And if there's a bad being here or
astral body goes into spiritual space with the etheric body. The
astral body doesn't remain as continuous as the etheric body in
intimate way and we let the etheric streams(which we spoke of in the
exoteric lecture on the etherization of the blood, where etheric

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together with the criticizing. When we attain this the forces that we

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we're supposed to loosen our etheric body from within and pull
loosening of the etheric body. There are many methods to bring it
are harmful to organs, since the etheric body is repelled form
etheric body more than anything else Even thinking about it hinders
first feeling that we get through the etheric body's loosening

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influenced by his forces, regardless of whether or not they're

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whether they were higher or lower. Those Beings who wove in the

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us, modern science breaks down altogether. The scientists are not
so on. They are usually called etheric states, and we have always
beyond the light we come to a yet finer etheric condition, we come to
ether are those which govern the chemical affinities of matter, the
speak of a chemical of sound-ether, which has the power to decompose
but also of the finer etheric element of sound which permeates
to earth. When we mount from the sound-ether we come to a still
higher etheric condition, which also withdrew with the
haschamayim. We come to the finest etheric state of all,
which weaves within the chemical or sound-ether we have just been
about by the sound-ether is poured a still higher etheric mode. And
this higher ether permeates the sound-ether just as the meaning of
idea of this finer etheric element permeating the organising
sound-ether and giving meaning to it — the Word which
and pours itself out into the sound-ether, is at the same time the
which as the highest etheric entity lies behind their activity, there
into the etheric with haschamayim radiated answering light

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existed at an earlier time now came forth in etheric, in elementary
nominalism — the dispute as to whether species were merely
names, or whether they were real spiritual entities. For clairvoyant
etheric bodies. For consciousness to arise, a separation or fission
and condition it, are linked together by certain laws. And on the Moon
Sun evolution the rudiments of an etheric or life body were added;
together they are able to achieve it. We could say that their product
Elohim, that they all worked together in order to bring about at last
That sounds as if the Seven were taking counsel together, as one does
their work in common, and that at length the human etheric form

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pointed out that together with the condensation of warmth into air
towards a more rarefied, more etheric condition, so that if we call
call the condition next above warmth, light, or light-ether. Thus, if
have a finer, more etheric state. I have already said that we may
give the name “sound-ether” to what works within
“ringing” or tonic ether. Alternatively, because this
weight, we might also call it the ether of numbers. Thus we rise from
solid; above, the life-ether, which is a still finer ether than the
sound-ether. So we may describe the elementary existence of the earth
and life ethers. In order to be quite sure that nothing is left vague
sound-ether permeates our nascent earth. Let us then ask ourselves
whether there is in fact any indication of such a recapitulation of
find? We should expect the sound-ether to set to work to organise
tonic or sound-ether set to work to organise matter in a certain
and to gather itself together, to contract, in the downward
Genesis account, following the intervention of the light-ether, we
see that of the sound-ether, and the second “day” of
the sound-ether has so disposed the substances that some radiate
life-ether. After the second “day” of creation something
should happen which would indicate to us that life-ether was
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in the direction of the etheric, to light-ether. We have said that
light-ether.
with its fantastic nonsense about ether vibrations and so on, is
and darkness, working together as two real polaric entities in the
as darkness stands together on one side in opposition to the Elohim
— whether we have always to look upon these backward Beings as
our physical and etheric bodies we have to distinguish destructive
together. The backward Archai are active in the darkness. Hence the
work upon our physical and etheric bodies, building them up. This
of the sound-ether broke in and separated the upper from the lower,
the sound-ether stage was recapitulated. That was on the second day
of creation. Then we saw how the life-ether intervened on the third
came forth all that can be brought about by the life-ether —

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lower region of clairvoyance, all that has to do with the etheric and
earth, water, air and fire or warmth, light, sound-ether and
life-ether. We try to acquire ideas about the nature of earth, water,
reached the solid state, held together by their power. And if we
fits together, if the threads are woven in the right way. If you now
together all their separate talents into one common activity. All the
combined together, so as at length to produce man. Thus all the
these hierarchies had to work together to prepare for what at last
consciousness together. It is only then that the contents of his
soul-life become knit together in a conscious unity. The human being
grows to a higher stage through the bringing together of activities
main and subordinate clauses should fit so beautifully together that

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deception. He does not know whether what the pictures show is an
external spiritual reality or not; that is, he does not know whether
it is something inscribed in the Akashic record or whether he has
elementary existence light-ether, sound-ether, life-ether —
life; then what we call number, or sound-ether; then light-ether;
then warmth-ether; then we have air, or the gaseous element, the
three higher elementary states — light-ether, the ether of
spiritual sound, and life-ether — we must place them in the
earth evolution apply to the sound-ether. This would involve that
the activity of the light-ether to that of sound-ether, it would have
this phase perceived the sound-ether”; it would have to say

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intellectual or mind-soul. When the sound-ether strikes into the
under the influence of the life-ether, verdant life unfolds in
above in the ether there weaves what we call the consciousness soul,
together with the sentient and the intellectual or mind-souls.
he leaves his etheric and physical bodies lying in bed, and he
physical and etheric bodies, currents go out from it, it begins to
and etheric bodies. During the night our astral bodies are diffused
take place. Man still remains a super-sensible etheric being. But a
further densification does take place within the etheric. Man still
spiritual-etheric circumference of the earth. Here we touch upon
to mature within a psycho-spiritual sphere, a more etheric sphere.
spiritual-etheric existence, and only sought denser embodiment after
water; man had still to remain in etheric existence, and it was in
fact his condensation to the stage of the etheric body that took
then an etheric condition, and then came the physical states, first
whether Paradise was situated on earth at this spot or that from
into the life of man weaving in the etheric heights, before he fell

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soul-spirits of differing characteristics, according to whether they
for the seer to recognise whether a man's soul has descended from
etheric-astral state. What was described on the third
lighter, that what previously had been etheric became transformed
into a condition somewhat resembling what we know today. The etheric
that through the formation of the sound-ether the upper substances
distinguish in him four members, the physical, etheric and astral
etheric bodies during sleep remain in the bed. When we are concerned
physical and etheric bodies as we know them today. These were only
etheric bodies, which we have to look for on the surrounding planets
outside his physical and etheric bodies, he is so to say articulated
during the day as our physical and etheric bodies was being prepared.
It was in order that these etheric and physical bodies should be able
souls were preserved on the earth. By that means the etheric and
etheric body derives from those who remained on earth. The
as far as the foundations of his physical and etheric bodies are
preserved it in his physical and etheric bodies ever since. Thus man

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the Elohim, each with his different capacity, worked together as a
male has a feminine etheric body, and the female a masculine etheric
that the physical body was more etheric and the etheric body somewhat
etheric, a densification on the side of the physical, only occurred
were at that time more etheric, more spiritual. They remained at a
the astral and then gradually condenses into the etheric-physical; it
ego man has acquired a higher member. But his earlier, more etheric
Man acquired an external, bodily member, and an inner, more etheric
into sound-ether and so on. The same process takes place in man at
appears on the outside, the more rarefied, etheric, invisible body
of the more etheric, more delicate man who was formed on the sixth
“day.” Thus there is a direct line from the more etheric
form, of the etheric man. If one wanted to describe the Jahve-man who
Whether we become better men in the intellectual, feeling and moral
our spirits remain united, and we try to work together to translate

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lifted into the refining spheres of etheric spiritual life that their
German language together with performances of the first two of

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three bodily sheaths; it is enclosed in the physical body, the ether
to look for this impulse primarily in the ether body. It is the ether
factor. It is the ether body which has made the physical body denser,
historical development of the human being, is the ether body. Let us
Demeter here in the ether body; from the etheric they are sent
that is to say, the ether body has an influence both on the astral
the ether body makes the physical body definitely denser, more
ether body has brought about a transformation in all three bodies,
the rape of Persephone by Pluto and her captivity in the nether world
to do with the ether body itself. Besides being the source
of the forces of metamorphosis, the ether body has also changed in
itself. In primeval times this ether body was so organised that the
say reflected back by the ether body. Thus it is the ether body which
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
total content of his consciousness is a reflection of his ether body.
Whether a man knows anything of the world depends upon his ether
the ether body? Its secret is that it is the key to knowledge of the
the door to knowledge of the world were it not for the ether body.
The ether body contains all that I have referred to in certain
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how the threads all hang together. In the two lectures just given I dwelt
to eliminate altogether what you mean today by the term
Being who gave birth out of the universal ether to all these
ether, so are the wide expanses of space, permeated with the
are rooted in our ether bodies. You know that from other
the matter as a Greek would do, we should ask once more whether there
we cover by the term ‘ether body’, and which bring about
in the soul, belongs to the ether body. And for everything which is
mere thoughts, and the ether body of enduring sentiments and habits.
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
delicate etheric sensation of taste, which most men do not
human ether body. It comes if one says, ‘I am now eliminating
this, when as a practising occultist he feels himself in this etheric
of the physical and of the etheric bodies.
to eliminate his physical body, to eliminate his ether body, and to
physical, etheric and astral. He never has the astral body alone, he
physical and etheric bodies. When this does happen to the practising
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forces of our ether bodies transplanted into cosmic space, we have
man as consisting of physical, etheric, astral, and also of the ego
the central power of Pluto; similarly the forces of the ether body
representing the forces of the ether body, and Zeus as representing
great spiritual Beings who lead humanity forwards, whether as Angels,
that now the etheric and astral spheres of the Earth became
Being whom we know as Christ was not there, now the etheric and
manner of St. Paul sees into the etheric sphere of the Earth and
raise themselves ever more and more to a recognition of the etheric
Christ substance, because it reaches right down to the etheric sphere
Earth, out of the earthly dross. The Christ Being, together with the
the physical inasmuch as it is permeated by the etheric, but when the

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the ether body, Pluto as the macroscosmic representative of the
together into separate human forms could only be made by someone who
as it meets us on the physical plane is altogether maya. It
without, towards which he is focused, and he feels himself, together
himself whether everything out there in space has not been woven out
developed his physical, etheric and astral bodies during the Moon
physical, etheric and astral bodies, for they had been fully
human soul all these forces which the human physical, etheric and
together as the waters of two rivers flow into one. Thus while the
developed physical, etheric and astral bodies, man bore in his astral
of the older and the younger Dionysos fit in wonderfully together;
lives Dionysos the younger! Whether you turn to the teaching of our
technology, whether you look at the kind of thought which has come

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found so astonishing, but which, pieced together, give us the world
that man as he stands before us consists of physical body, ether
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
the influence of forces emanating only from the physical, etheric and
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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the human being, that he consists of physical body, etheric body,
ego through the astral body down to the etheric body. As far as its
manner. It is of course quite another question whether the argument
etheric and astral bodies and so on.’ It is there that
again into etheric body, astral body and ego. And it is these images
is based on awareness that the ‘Dichter’ brings together
Earth, but who appeared to them in the etheric sphere and taught
Dionysos appeared in an etheric form in the holy Mysteries, and from
which belong together. The younger Dionysos, who, I told you, allowed
at a specific time to gather himself together again as a soul in a

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together with what we gather from history, are a better help in this
where it was densest, still only in etheric form; that is to say, the
it were within the ether body, but the forces of this ether body were
etheric forces were in a way the forces of the physical body but they
his Lemurian development, his densest body was still an etheric one.
spiritual vision man was there at the outset in an etheric body, and
this etheric body contained those physical forces which had been
the further working of the forces of the etheric body has been, it
originating from the ether body has become since the time of Lemuria;
let this diagram represent the human ether body as it was at the
the etheric body before Lemuria, and which then condensed in such a
time of Lemuria onwards, out of specific etheric forces in our ether
crystallise out of special forces in the human etheric body which
and the heart mean to us? They are the ether-world condensed, they
are the densified forces of the etheric world! Now from the moment
the etheric body became physical, but that as regards each of our
was once etheric and had become physical, is once more dissolved, is
changed back again into the ether. That this is so, that after the
etheric forces have condensed to a system of organs they are not
is dissolved and returns to the etheric form. Just as the blood has
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As an example of this I drew attention to a kind of etherisation of
into the same substance as that of which the human ether body
consists. And we have seen that these etheric elements stream upwards
element of our etheric body streams through the brain that we are
make it clear that unless these etheric streams were to rise up from
preceding evolutions had resulted in the formation of an etheric man
physical forces, a purely etheric form. A physically solid man such
still in etheric form. This etheric human form was shadowy and
which meets the clairvoyant eye is the etheric body. For example, it
is the etheric body, stimulated by cosmic forces coming in from
flowed together in man. He would have to realise that an etheric
together out of the forms of bull and lion, with wings such as an
bull-form, together with the wings of a bird, to work upon the
Phantom which underlies it, if one weaves these elements together,
work. And here we have the four esoteric symbols which together make
everything in it which is those upper gods is there only in etheric
form, from the warmth ether upwards to the light ether, the chemical
ether and the life ether. But the sun as it moves in space today is
not only there for clairvoyant sight as an etheric structure, it is
etheric body. Thus when we look up at the sun we have to say:
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were held back, but also those of the etheric body. The result was
etheric body, but in normal consciousness is not experienced. Still
etheric body, or what through Saturn, Sun and Moon evolutions he has
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
Seraphim worked together with the Spirits of Movement and the
particular use of the right hand. Thus it is the etheric and astral
vibrations, to particles of ether in motion, even to ponderable
ether and so on. This method has now for the most part been
so to say, on the other side. So that whether we go out into the
whether we penetrate below into the sphere of the sub-earthly gods,

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the etheric body, demons in the astral body and spirits in the ego. To
learn to rule them a man must form a firm framework in the etheric
for the etheric body is a pentagram with thinking in the head point,

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quite different. It's not at all important whether a soul always
starts about 2300. Together with Michael, a dark God has begun his
makes a difference whether this or that vowel resounds in the soul.

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Four people lived together. The first one was a little feeble-minded

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receives into the etheric body that thereby gets many impressions from
What tears down the physical body builds things up in the etheric
thought pictures that the I throws into the etheric body via the
to our etheric body in ordinary life are worthless as far as their
what the eyes receive from outside they throw onto the etheric body,
on which the picture arises. The I then works on the etheric body from
it throws on the etheric body as an impression; and the main thing is
at the right place, so we must form our astral and etheric bodies
impressions in one's etheric body through meditation, by immersing
phlegmatic and melancholic beings create an etheric body for a man
changes. The etheric body will light up from the other side through
the etheric body, but we only see the outer impressions that were put

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etheric, astral bodies and I on Saturn, Sun, Moon and earth,

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above and below and beside me, who is everywhere whether I look

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the pentagram (8–27) he feels that he's placed into the whole etheric

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body have left the etheric and physical bodies. The stronger and more
that they can be imprinted from the astral into the etheric body. It's
only when the etheric body has received a copy that the portals before
We've heard that our physical and etheric bodies couldn't live for a
two leave the physical and etheric bodies during sleep, higher kinds
Now, why is this archangel who enters our etheric body called our
Now, these guiding creators didn't want the whole etheric body to be
etheric body back in spiritual worlds. And this part of the etheric
Adam. This union of the etheric body that remained behind with a human
Jesus boy received Adam's etheric body. The high, guiding creator
for men with this part of the etheric body. It's true that a man
with their higher etheric body. Since the ability to speak lies in the
etheric body, one can understand the legend that tells us that the
connection of Adam's etheric body with a physical human body again, it
was the soil for Adam's etheric body, the through-station for
multiplication, and it's these multiplied etheric bodies that are

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individual being. If one had taken together the generic souls of human

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containing prescriptions for all the steps. Everywhere, whether in the
to begin with, they had their etheric bodies lifted out of their physical.
plane, they had experienced in the etheric realm. Their last words were
had experienced earlier in the etheric body what Christ experienced
It consisted of the following: Whether we go to Egypt, or to Persia,
or to India, whether we are deepened in the Orphic or the Eleusinian
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
Whether we look into the past or into the future, this I is what is
we see small communities held together by blood ties. Love was limited

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for us is also a day of gathering together; for what would the teachings
them. If the matter and forces did not fit together then this soul could
the emphasis is on the development of the etheric body. In other locations
of the physical body. The Phrygians in Smyrna emphasized the etheric
purified, and must become more and more an expression of the etheric
body. The etheric body must itself become an expression of the astral
put this fact together with another. We can think of this space as filled
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the earth, sun, and moon sound together in our astral body. But what
comes forth from the planets sounds in our etheric body. There is a
sevenfold influence from the planets on the etheric body, as there is
planets resound into our etheric body. There are twelve influences from
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
twelve tones in the physical body. Altogether this results in harmony
body is constantly becoming more like the etheric body. If the physical
of the etheric body. The etheric body must gradually be developed into
this etheric body will become life spirit. Then it will have overcome
the etheric body developed into a body of soul. When they strive for
pray for a blessing through the enlivening of the etheric body. This
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their physical bodies into a higher form. In the second region etheric
Let us keep together all
presented altogether as the middle point, as what is actually active
together of forces, forces that flow together in the astral body, etheric
a very special value is placed on this word altogether. It is seen as
something of their astral body, but also something of their etheric body,
kept in a state such that their etheric body existed outside their physical
if dead. Meanwhile, the hierophant lead the etheric body through higher
see how everything fits together.
of Knowledge, had grown together. Seth took a seed from this tree that
had grown together; this seed he placed in the mouth of his deceased
the tree of knowledge? What does it mean that they have grown together?
We meet together in order

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