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266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 12 Feb 1908, Berlin
Translator Unknown

The second symbol consists of the moon, sun and the ego as an appendix. The third symbol signifies the division of the physical and etheric bodies that were originally similar; then the physical body condenses and the finer etheric body remains outside, surrounding it.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 09 May 1912, Cologne
Translator Unknown

Abstention from alcohol is necessary, for this works on the ego that lives and works in the blood. Meditation pulls the spirit up and loosens its connection with the physical body; alcohol pulls it down and consolidates it in the same.
70b. Ways to a Knowledge of the Eternal Forces of the Human Soul: The Forgotten Pursuit of Spiritual Science Within the Development of German Thought 21 Feb 1916, Leipzig

For pragmatism, the unifying concept of soul, the unifying concept of the ego, of self-awareness, is nothing more than a means of holding together the manifoldness of the soul life and its expressions in the body, so that they do not fall apart in contemplation; so that one has, as it were, brackets and bindings.
Then Hamerling continues by pointing out that what the Asian sought, and what the ancestors of the Germanic peoples sought in Asia, when they extinguished the human essence and suppressed the ego in order to rise to the spirit of the world, must reappear in a later form. This Asiatic way, which also appears today in Hinduism, can no longer be the present way. Now that the Christ Impulse has entered the world, the human ego must be attached to the world spirituality in a different way. The ego must be elevated, strengthened, as we see in the three - Fichte, Hegel, Schelling - and others; the ego must be strengthened; but in the way it must be, now that the greatest impulse in humanity, as the earth has seen the Christ impulse, as it must be, as the Asian striving must appear on a higher level, so it appeared from the deepest root of the national being.
32. Collected Essays on Literature 1884-1902: Max Stirner and Friedrich Nietzsche

On the whole, Schellwien shows himself to be a philosopher who wants to draw the content of his science from the essence of human individuality. However, it is not the ego as an individual, arbitrary entity that is his foundation, but the concrete-personal, which has the advantage over all other world entities that it contains the general, the abstract as something concrete and full of content.
117a. The Gospel of John and the Three Other Gospels: Second Lecture 04 Jan 1910, Stockholm

During life on earth, the physical body, through its elasticity, holds together the etheric body and with it the soul forces of the human being. After death, the ego is the only cohesive element. But if this ego is poorly developed, the person often runs a great risk of losing himself after death.
97. Adept-School of the Past 07 Mar 1907, Düsseldorf
Translator Unknown

Every race has its own task: the Atlantean race had the task of developing the Ego. Our race, the fifth root-race, or the post-Atlantean era, must develop Manas, the Spirit-Self. But the achievements of Atlantis did not die, when Atlantis was submerged, for the essence of everything that existed in the Atlantean School of Adepts was rescued by a small group of men.
The new impulse of the power of confidence must come, otherwise we approach human disintegration, a universal cult of the Ego and of egoism. In the times of the Mysteries of the Spirit, which were founded upon the rightful power, authority and might of the Spirit, there were certain wise men who possessed wisdom, and only the soul who passed through difficult probations could be initiated by them.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Three Lights 17 Dec 1911, Berlin

He added “Prologue to Heaven” to his “Faust”, whereby “Faust”, instead of being just the story of an individual, is linked to the whole of human development. Now only the ego remains to be considered. Its inherent power, especially in very strong individualities, is also transferred to one of the archai, who uses it after long periods of time to allow new powers to descend into humanity.
This then works for an entire nation. What he has worked out in his ego, he hands over to the Zeitgeist or to the archai. The physical form of the human being, he hands it over to the spirits of form.
18. The Riddles of Philosophy: Echoes of the Kantian Mode of Conception
Translated by Fritz C. A. Koelln

[ 1 ] Only a few personalities in the second half of the nineteenth century attempted to find a firm foundation for the relation of a conception of the self-conscious ego toward the general world picture by going deeply into Hegel's mode of thought. One of the best thinkers along these lines was Paul Asmus (1842–1876), who died as a young man. In 1873 he published a book entitled, The Ego and the Thing in Itself. In it he shows how it is possible, through Hegel's approach to thinking and the world of ideas, to obtain a relation of man toward the essence of things.
10. Initiation and Its Results (1909): Dream Life
Translated by Clifford Bax

[ 4 ] If the student has raised himself to such a life in the higher Ego, then—or still more probably during the acquisition of the higher consciousness—it will be revealed to him how he may stir into life what is called the fire of Kundalini which lies in the organ at the heart, and, further, how he may direct the currents described in a previous chapter.
From this it will be seen that a complete consciousness of an object in the spiritual world is entirely dependent upon the condition that the person himself has cast upon it the spiritual light. In reality the Ego, who has drawn forth this fire, no longer dwells in the physical human body at all, but (as has been already shown) apart from it.
125. Three Lectures on the Mystery Dramas: Self-Knowledge as Portrayed in the Rosicrucian Mystery, The Portal of Initiation 17 Sep 1910, Basel
Translated by Ruth Pusch, Hans Pusch

For the one who finds his Self out in the cosmos, the whole cosmos becomes an ego being. We cannot bear then anything coming toward us that is not related to the ego being. Art will gradually learn something in this direction; it will come to the ego principle, because the Christ has brought us our ego for the first time. In the most various realms will this ego be alive.

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