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93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXI 19 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

With us everything is dissolved in Kamaloka which has not yet been worked upon and ennobled by the ego. With savages the greater part is dissolved, with highly developed people the smallest. The ennobled astral body is taken with us into Devachan.
When we have united ourselves with all our deeds we are impelled towards our next incarnation. The part of the ego that has been made eternal, the I and the ennobled astral body, now returns and in the astral world unites itself again with a body that corresponds to what has not yet been ennobled.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVIII 31 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

With the peoples of the Near East we find the picture consciousness of the astral body, with the Semites, Greek and Roman peoples the waking consciousness of the ego. Now in the Fifth Sub-Race man does not perceive the changing stages of Manas, but this Race sees as the highest stage the psychic experience of concepts as such.
The Fifth Root-Race is descended from the original Semites, from the Fifth Sub-Race of the Fourth Root-Race. This people developed the individual ego which produces egoism. Man owes his independence to the original Semites. Man must first find himself, but then again must also surrender himself He must surrender himself to what makes thought a reality.
106. Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: Sixth Lecture 08 Sep 1908, Leipzig
Translated by Norman MacBeth

But as the sun separated itself from the earth more and more, and as the vapor-sphere—which for man at that time was the realm of his higher nature—refined itself more and more, then man, who was able to perceive the direct influence of the sun less and less, acquired the consciousness of what the forces in his lower nature were, and he came to the point of grasping his ego there. When he dived down into his lower nature, he became conscious of himself for the first time.
Thereby he was attached to the physical world, and the first germ of the ego could originate in the being of man. The later Egyptian knowledge felt all that has been described here, and recounted it by saying, “Osiris ruled the earth in past times.
168. The Influence of the Dead on the Life of Man on Earth 03 Dec 1916, Zurich
Translator Unknown

Then, having lived through the gate of death with the right feeling: ‘Into Christ we die’, and gazing in from the surrounding sphere, among all the beings whom we behold—beings of the Hierarchies, elemental beings, beings such as the human souls, incarnate or discarnate—among all these, we shall also find our own Ego-being; and we shall behold from outside the relation of this our own Ego to all the other beings.
Only if we can have this feeling towards our own Ego, only then can we find our true way again into physical incarnation. And there is no other way of having this feeling; we can only owe it to the right passage through the gate of death—the passing through the gate of death with the inner feeling: ‘we have died into Christ’. This union with Christ gives us the possibility to behold, as it were with the eye of the soul of Christ Himself, our relation within the spiritual world, to behold ourselves as Ego being among the other beings. This, my dear friends, is what I would always like to attain.
194. The Mysteries of Light, of Space, and of the Earth: Historical Occurrences of the Last Century 14 Dec 1919, Dornach
Translated by Frances E. Dawson

We say that man is provided with physical body, etheric body, astral body, and ego. At first only the physical and etheric bodies come into consideration for the physical sense world. The etheric body still takes part in time in earth events; the astral body can be found only when we are freed from time. The physical body is in space; the ego, the true ego, can be found only when we have escaped from space, for the world in which the true ego lives is spaceless.
319. Anthroposophical Medical Theory and Human Knowledge: First Lecture 28 Aug 1923, Penmaenmawr

For nothing takes place in the physical body that is not at the same time influenced by etheric, astral or ego processes. But because natural science completely disregards these ego processes, these astral processes, this etheric life and weaving, it does not actually get anywhere near the human being.
We have seen how the human being not only has this physical body, but also an etheric or formative forces body, an astral body, an ego organization. And just yesterday I was able to explain to you how the physical body and the formative forces body, on the one hand, and the I and the astral body, on the other, are intimately connected, but how the astral body and the formative forces body or ether body are more loosely connected, because they separate every night.
In the case of the forces at work in silicic acid, quartz, and quartz, in the silicea, can be seen to be particularly suitable for establishing the correct relationship between the ego and the astral body when it is disturbed, in order to have a healing effect on the nervous and sensory system.
273. The Problem of Faust: Spiritual Science Considered with the Classical Walpurgis-Night 28 Sep 1918, Dornach
Translated by George Adams

That is all covered up in waking consciousness, and it must be so, for the simple reason that man would never attain the ego-conscious thinking he is to learn during his earth-mission, nor be able to manage the free will he is to acquire, if he were to continue to live as he lived during the periods of Saturn, Sun, and especially the Moon period.
If, for instance, we could not touch the left hand with the right, we could never arrive at ego-consciousness. By being able to grasp the right-man with the left, by gaining knowledge of the right-man by means of the left, we arrive at consciousness of ourselves, at consciousness of the presence of the ego.
When we look at a man the axes of the eyes are crossed. In this way the ego is associated with sight; through the crossing the left direction is associated with the right. And the farther we go back the closer is the relation, in common with the consciousness.
286. Ways to a New Style in Architecture: The Acanthus Leaf 07 Jun 1914, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

This union came about because it was in Greece that the Ego was fully realised within the human body, and therefore this motif could find expression in Greek culture. [IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] The Ego, when it is within the body, must grow strong if it has to bear a load. It is this strengthening process that is felt in the volute. We see the human being, as he strengthens his Ego in the fourth Post-Atlantean period, expressed in the volute. Thus we come to the basic form of the Ionic pillar; it is as if Atlas is bearing the world, but the form is still undeveloped in that the volute becomes the weight bearer.
111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: Training for Rosicrucians I 02 Oct 1907, Hanover

Man of the past can be compared to the animal of today. It still has a single group soul. The ego of the animals on the astral plan: [IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] Diagram 2 Man also used to have a group soul.
111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: The Rosicrucian Esoteric Doctrine of the Evolution of the Cosmos 10 Mar 1908, Nijmegen

In this state of the earth, man finally received the ego, and a slower pace of development was adopted. The sun, the area of much faster development, emerged from our earth during the second root race; the moon, the area of crystallization of all development, emerged during the period of the third root race.

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