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158. The Kalevala: Second Lecture 14 Nov 1914, Dornach

Now, for our time cycle, the earthly element is the ego-forming element, that is, the one that matters. If another element intrudes, such as the watery element, for example, it intrudes more from the spiritual world.
You see, the human being – I repeat something very elementary – consists, as we know, of his physical body, his etheric body, his astral body and his ego nature. We know that the I-nature and the astral body leave the physical and etheric body during sleep and, as it were, dwell in the spiritual world, in a world of which we can say: At night we are in this world, where the elemental, etheric beings are also.
We see how the nature spirits have instilled something in him that still resonates when Herman Grimm, with his ego and his astral body, is outside of his physical and etheric bodies. Who was it that first told the father and uncle the fairy tales with particular vividness, as if they were elemental beings?
162. The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: Tree of Life I 24 Jul 1915, Dornach
Translator Unknown

It was therefore like a predetermined karma that—while in Europe up to a definite point life was grasped—the ego-culture appeared purely naively, vitally and full of life where the deepest darkness was; whereas over there where was the profoundest wisdom, the Mystery of Golgotha arose.
If the southern regions had remained populated by descendants of the old Romans, and the Latin culture had gone on working in them, they would have faced the danger of completely losing the power of developing an ego-consciousness. Hence the descendants of ancient Rome were displaced and there was poured into this region where Latinism was to spread, what came from the element of the Ostrogoths and Lombardi.
See ‘The Christmas Thought and the Mystery of the Ego. The Tree of the Cross and the Golden Legend’—Rudolf Steiner.2.
314. Therapy: Second Lecture 01 Jan 1924, Dornach

From what can be said about it, it is essential to realize that when dealing with a very generalized disease such as syphilis, one is dealing, firstly, with the actual focus of the disease and its radiations, but then, because syphilis affects the whole person, reaching up into the ego organization, one is dealing with the counter-image in the nerve-sense man. It is quite possible to say schematically: the disease is located in the metabolic-limb-human being, but has its counter-image in the nerve-sense-human being, to which, for example, the larynx tract also belongs, everything that is connected with the differentiating upper breathing.
Now it must be clear that this excessive ether organization in this tract immediately leads to a strengthening of the ego organization for this tract, which goes down into the subconscious. We therefore have a physical formation that should not be there and that is dependent on the ego organization.
232. Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres: The Chthonic and the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Transition from Plato to Aristotle 14 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by E. H. Goddard, Dorothy S. Osmond

It is this working of lead which makes it possible for man to be independent in himself, placing him as Ego over against that sensitiveness to the outer world which is in him. It is these lead forces which, entering first the ether body of man, and then from the ether body impregnating also, in a sense, the physical body, bestow upon him the faculty and power of memory.
Think how the human part of you would suffer if you did not carry within you what you experienced ten or twenty years ago. Your Ego-force would be shattered unless this power of memory were present in full measure. The power of memory is due to what streams to you from distant Saturn.
And now he learned also to understand that if these Saturn forces alone were active— giving him the power of the Ego, the power of memory—he would be completely estranged from the Cosmos. Inspired by Saturn with the power of memory, he would become, as it were, a hermit.
266III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 05 Oct 1913, Oslo
Translator Unknown

The bowl is the physical body, the oil is the etheric body, the flame that consumes the oil is the astral body, the shining light is man's ego. This human being varies a great deal depending on climate and location. A man's etheric body expands if he travels to the northeast, as to Finland and it contracts on the way down to Sicily.
A Theory of Knowledge: Translator's Preface

Moreover, when we deal with the human being, we must apprehend the central reality—the ego—manifest as a self-sufficing spiritual being in its uniqueness in each single human personality. Through this mode of intuitive cognition, we may attain to the knowledge that the universal Creative Spirit is in the single human being; that His highest manifestation is in human thought; that man is in harmony with this Guiding Power of the world when he follows freely, as an individual, the guidance of his own intuitions.
34. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Paul Asmus's Worldview 28 Feb 1904,

Sensuous things are, as it were, only parables of their ideal essence; and human thought grasps this essence. In his essay 'The Ego and the Thing in Itself', Paul Asmus writes: 'Let us imagine a lump of sugar; it is round, sweet, impenetrable, etc.
91. Inner and Outer Evolution: States of Consciousness 31 Aug 1904, Berlin

What develops and rises to higher degrees is the ego. What we study is what the I experiences. So that theosophy is: self-knowledge. We were there and participated in the life on all planets.
94. Theosophy Based on the Gospel of John: Fifth Lecture 03 Nov 1906, Munich

To achieve this, something had to happen that would have a transforming effect on the ego. Moses first became the lawgiver of Israel. The Ten Commandments had to begin with the conscious I being worked towards. God must announce himself as the expression of the ego in man. In the third chapter of the second book of Moses, it is related how Moses, while tending Jethro's sheep, sees a burning bush from which the voice of Yahweh resounds: “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.”
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy and Formal Logic 08 Nov 1908, Munich

The conclusion “Therefore I am mortal” refers only to the body. However, our ego belongs to another level; it is not mortal. The conclusion: “Therefore the ego is mortal” is therefore false.

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