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107. The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers: The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers 22 Mar 1909, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

And on the Earth the Spirits of Form endowed him with the ‘I’, the ego, in order that by realizing himself as distinct from his environment he might become an independent being.
And in the age now, approaching, those spiritual Beings known as the Asuras1 will creep into the consciousness soul and therewith into the human ‘I’ or ego—for the ‘I’ lights up in the consciousness soul. The Asuras will generate evil with a far mightier force than was wielded by the Satanic powers in the Atlantean epoch or by the Luciferic Spirits in the Lemurian epoch.
And this feeling of isolation would have become more and more intense. Man would have hardened within the ego, would have been thrown back into himself, nor could he have found any bridge to the others. And egoism, already intense, would have increased beyond all telling with every new incarnation.
102. The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man: Lecture VI 24 Mar 1908, Berlin
Translator Unknown

If, with this in mind, we look back once more to the previous embodiment of our Earth, the ancient Moon, then we remember that the human being had physical body, etheric body, astral body, but not yet a personal ego as he now possesses on Earth. If we now examine the consciousness of such a Moon-man we find it was radically different from that of a human being of today.
We know that when he said “I” he did not feel himself as representative of his ego, but felt the blood of the whole folk as it had streamed down in the generations since the Father Abraham: “I and the Father Abraham are one.”
If we were to go back to the old Moon where the human being had not a restricted ego of this sort embedded in the group-consciousness, but where he had no ego at all, where he still consisted of physical body, etheric body, astral body, we should find that this old Moon-consciousness was not a smaller one but embraced immensely great groups—that in fact all-embracing group-souls were the basis of the human race on the Moon.
104. The Apocalypse of St. John: Introductory Lecture 17 Jun 1908, Nuremberg
Translated by Mabel Cotterell

the German tribes in whose land modern Germany now lies. The separate members felt the tribal ego, and themselves as a part of it. A man would not have said “I am” in the clear, definite way it is said to-day; he felt himself part of an organism composed of those who were related by blood.
The individual felt himself sheltered in the whole folk which for him was ruled by one Ego. He knew the meaning of “I and the Father Abraham are one,” for he traced the blood-relationship back through the generations to Abraham. If he wished to go beyond his single ego he knew himself to be sheltered in the Father Abraham, from whom flows all the blood through the generations, which is the external bearer of the common Folk-Ego.
54. The Social Question and Theosophy 02 Mar 1908, Hamburg

—Fichte also spoke about the incapability of some people to imagine the spiritual aspect of the ego: “One could most people convince to regard themselves as pieces of lava on the moon than as egos.” However, it is a necessity of life to imagine the ego. If we consider life and the social question from this point of view, we must say that we consider spiritual science as the great school of life.
If our social misery has its reason in the personal self-interest, in the position in our social orders, then only a worldview can help which raises the ego out of the personal self-interest. As peculiar as it appears, food originates not only from our work; food originates also from the spiritual-scientific deepening instead of need, grief, and misery.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: The Essence of the Human Being 02 Jul 1907, Eisenach

The savage has not yet done this; he has not yet put any work into it, he still lives in his urges and desires, and the part of his body, the ego, lives in him as it has been handed down to him by the gods. The higher a person is, the more this divine inheritance works in him and transforms the other bodies.
Everything that can be transformed in the etheric body so that the ego can control it is called the spirit of life or Budhi. Thus the sixth part of the human being is the transformed etheric body or life body.
This is as long as the etheric body is connected to the astral body and the ego. Then the astral body separates and the second corpse of the human being remains behind, the etheric corpse.
317. Curative Education: Lecture XI 06 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

As you know very well, dreams make their appearance only when astral body and ego have begun to enter into the physical and ether body, not before. As far as astral body and ego are concerned, everything is forgotten between the times of falling asleep and awakening.
This experience was then transformed and shows itself today as weakness of the ego.For treatment, the boy should have sugar injections D 6, seven injections in fourteen days.
The body will have to change the starch into sugar, and that will provide another means of stimulating the ego.Dr. Steiner's advice for the education of the boy was as follows: He must keep a diary, recording all that he has done right through the day.
231. Supersensible Man: Lecture V 18 Nov 1923, The Hague
Translated by Mary Adams

The impressions that come to man through his eyes, ears and other senses, are indeed connected with his Ego, with its whole life and development, but they can do nothing to promote the inner stability of the Ego.
We turn our gaze outward to the beauty and splendour of the flowers; we have before us a world of infinite variety. We turn our gaze inward, to our Ego; and for ordinary consciousness it seems, to begin with, as if this Ego is vanishing away from us.
111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: The Christian Initiation 04 Mar 1908, Hilversum

Through the mystical death, he came to know all the depths of human pain and misery, and thus the spiritual light opened before him, and he attained enlightenment and awakening. The ego is now identical with the spiritual consciousness. Through the burial, he learned that his body was a part of the Earth planet and that his body would have to be reunited with the Earth.
94. Popular Occultism: Life Between Death and New Birth 02 Jul 1906, Leipzig
Translator Unknown

When the human being has thus transformed his whole life in an alchemistic way, his causal body and his Ego return to the earthly sphere. The human germs arise, described as bell-like shapes, which arise through the fact that the astral substance comes flying towards them in accordance with the inner force-streams of the capacities acquired by each human germ.
The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: Appendix

Whilst the power of Odin is present in respiration and language, Thor works in the blood, in the rhythmic pulse-beat. Blood is the physical expression of the ego in the metabolic system. Thor is portrayed in the sagas as a choleric with red blood, quick to anger, ever ready to wield his hammer Mjolnir and endowed with a powerful will.

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