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161. Meditation and Concentration 27 Mar 1915, Dornach
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[IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] Thus all the parts a man—the ego and astral body down to the etheric body, must be drawn out. This withdrawal is of course connected with the evolution of the so-called Lotus-flowers.
If we have eaten let us say a piece of cabbage—we are mostly vegetarians here—and it is then worked over in our organism, one has then not merely to do with the physical-chemical process, carried out by the stomach with its forces and juices, but behind all these the etheric body, astral body, and ego are active. All these processes have spiritual processes behind them. It would be quite false to believe that any material processes exist which have not a spiritual process behind them.
Then, while your stomach and the other organs digest correctly, you live with your spiritual-psychic nature in the spiritual-psychic realm, and whereas you usually remain unconscious of the spiritual process carried out in your etheric body, astral body, and ego, this enters your consciousness if you are clairvoyant and then, because you experience yourself in this spiritual-psychic realm, you can see all this working, constructing, and creating of the spiritual-psychic force during digestion; you see it as it projects itself out into the world, and it appears to you reflected in pictures in the external ether.
302a. The Three Fundamental Forces in Education 16 Sep 1920, Stuttgart
Translator Unknown

As we know, this whole human being comprises within itself the ego, the astral body, the etheric body, and the physical body. These four members of the nature of man are by no means going through a symmetrical development, but rather they develop in very different ways; and we must distinguish accurately between the development of the physical and of the etheric body, and that of the astral body and of the ego.
But beginning with the seventh year what proceeds from music-speech becomes particularly active in the etheric body. Then this condition is opposed by the ego and the astral body: an element of the nature of will struggles from with-out against the similar one from within, and this appears at puberty.
282. Speech and Drama: The Relation of Gesture and Mime to the Forming of Speech 15 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

When man finds this condition painful, he tries to call back the force that is working from the ether body into the physical body, and raise it in the direction of the astral body. Ego Astral Body Ether Body Physical Body He thus pours a counter-force into the astral body.
Going on now to consider laughter, we find that where laughter occurs, something is lodged in the astral body that should have been grasped by the ego. It has strayed into the astral body, because man was not fully master of the impression. Say, a person looks at a caricature: perhaps he sees tiny little legs and an enormous head.
The impression slips down into the astral body—leaves the ego and enters the astral body. The person then tries to evoke a reaction from ether body and physical body.
302a. Meditatively Acquired Knowledge of Man: The Three Fundamental Forces in Education 16 Sep 1920, Stuttgart
Translated by T. Van Vliet, Pauline Wehrle, Karla Kiniger

For during the period of a child's development this whole man needs to be considered far more than later on. We know this whole man embraces the ego, the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body. These four members of our human nature are of course not subject to uniform development but unfold in quite different ways. We must distinguish accurately between the development of the physical and the etheric bodies and that of the astral body and ego. The outer signs of this differentiated development are furnished—as you know from the various hints I have given here or there—by the change of teeth and by that alteration in the human being which is announced by the change of voice accompanying sexual maturity in the male, appearing as clearly but in a different way in the female.
From the seventh year on, however, the activity of music and speech becomes particularly strong in the etheric body. Then the ego and astral body turn against this; a willed element from outside battles with a willed element from within, and this comes to visibility at puberty.
111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: Training for Rosicrucians II 03 Oct 1907, Hanover

When the heart is transformed, it comes into a living relationship with the spiritual world. As the human ego develops, it learns to study individual limbs and to know the macrocosm; one learns to experience within oneself what happened at the time of the beginning of the earth.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 14 Jun 1908, Munich
Translator Unknown

It's like a sleeper who hears nothing because the ego and astral body have left his ears. When we look at a rose its red color, form, etc. has a destructive effect on our retina.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 02 Jan 1911, Stuttgart
Translator Unknown

Others only want to see something in spiritual worlds out of curiosity, and meditate blind—to this end, without wanting to devote themselves to regular study, for that's too inconvenient for them. This has a harmful effect on the ego, from there on the astral body, then on the etheric body and namely on the part we call chemical ether, and from there on the physical glands and fluids.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 27 Oct 1911, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Others are curious and would like to see or experience something in the spiritual world, and they mediate without studying regularly because they're too lazy to do so. This works directly on the ego, from there on the astral body, then on the life body's chemical ether and then on the body's glands and fluids.
Speech and Drama: Foreword

And then he will come to recognise that it is for him, strengthened as he is in soul, and awakened in his ego-consciousness thanks to the gifts and achievements of long epochs of cultural development—it is for him now to restore to drama its character as of a Mystery.
95. At the Gates of Spiritual Science: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions 29 Aug 1906, Stuttgart
Translated by Charles Davy, E. H. Goddard

In fact, if a plant were to be permeated by an astral body it would no longer be a plant, but would have to be provided with cells if it were to be permeated by an etheric body. Now if the Ego-body is gradually to find a place for itself, there must be warm blood in the physical body. (All red-blooded animals were separated off from man at the time when the Ego-condition was being prepared for man.)

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