Donate books to help fund our work. Learn more→

The Rudolf Steiner Archive

a project of Steiner Online Library, a public charity

Search results 1491 through 1500 of 2238

˂ 1 ... 148 149 150 151 152 ... 224 ˃
14. Four Mystery Plays: The Soul's Awakening: Scene 9
Translated by Harry Collison

In light which on the cosmic midnight shines, Which Astrid brings from soul-obscurity, Mine ego joins that self which fashioned me To serve its purpose in the cosmic life. But how, 0 moment, can I hold thee fast, So that I do not lose thee when once more My senses feel earth clearness once again?
26. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: From Nature to Sub-Nature
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

[ 5 ] That which takes place in his astral body and his ego holds sway in the more hidden regions of the soul. It holds sway, for example, in his destiny. We must, however, look for it, to begin with, not in the complicated relationships of destiny, but in the simple and elementary processes of life.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: Psychological Aphorisms 02 Jul 1922,

It is only necessary that he also recognize them. Then the selfishness of the ego melts away into the selflessness of the knowledge of the spiritual world. Is the “I” in the human body?
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Elemental, Sidereal and Heavenly Deities — Human Development and the Zodiac 02 Jan 1905, Berlin

If you now imagine the development, you have to say to yourself: We are dealing with an undivided Ishwara consciousness at the beginning, which has divided somewhere until the dull ego consciousnesses emerge. This point is esoterically and astrologically referred to as Libra. So you can say: The esoteric meaning of the statue of Libra is the emergence of Atma from Ishwara.
68b. The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit: German Theosophists of the Nineteenth Century 11 Apr 1906, Leipzig

In “The Apprentices of Sais” he clearly stated that man is related to God and the whole world – Pictures: Hyacinth, a beautiful boy, loves the beautiful Rose Child. He owes the realization of the human ego to Fichte. Another thinker: Schelling. In his 1809 publication “On Human Freedom”, he seeks to bring out Jakob Böhme's ideas.
68c. Goethe and the Present: Weimar at the Center of German Intellectual Life 22 Feb 1892, Weimar

The “Fairytale” proclaims in symbolic form the same thing that Schiller's letters proclaim in abstract form: only through the sacrifice of a limited ego does man achieve that higher self where he no longer has to obey the command of a moral law coming from outside, but can do out of himself what his personal judgment advises him.
124. Background to the Gospel of St. Mark: Rosicrucian Wisdom in Folk-Mythology 10 Jun 1911, Berlin
Translated by E. H. Goddard, Dorothy S. Osmond

The degree of development that is possible to-day and can give strength, assurance and a genuine content to life is within our reach if we acquire knowledge of the manifold nature of man and realise that his constitution is not a haphazard medley but consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and Ego. We have formulated definite ideas, for example of the temperaments, by studying the process of education and the development of the physical body up to the seventh year, of the etheric body up to the fourteenth and of the astral body up to the twenty-first year.
These minstrels did not speak about theosophy, about the lower and higher Ego, about man's physical, etheric and astral bodies and so on. As they moved around the land their mission was to speak of the spirit in the way it was wont to be proclaimed at that time.
The physical body has existed since the evolutionary period of Old Saturn, the etheric body since the period of Old Sun, and the astral body since the period of Old Moon. The Ego, the ‘I’, has been embodied in men in the course of the Earth period itself. Julius Mosen depicts Ritter Wahn seeking to overcome death.
115. Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit: At the Portals of the Senses 03 Nov 1910, Berlin
Translated by Samuel P. Lockwood, Loni Lockwood

In this connection we must also give due consideration to the ego conception. Our entire continuous soul life bears a constant relationship to our central visualization, the ego conception. If we follow the path indicated today, we shall in the next lecture discover how to correlate the directions of memory and ego experience. At bottom, the main tendency of the soul is desire. This being the case, anyone knowing that through esoteric development the soul's aims must be raised may be surprised to learn that in a certain sense desire must be overcome.
130. Jeshu ben Pandira: Lecture One 04 Nov 1911, Leipzig
Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker

And the final epoch, that of the moral impulse will be that in which the human beings who shall have passed through the other stages will behold the Christ in His glory, as the form of the greatest "Ego," as the spiritualized Ego-Self, as the great Teacher of human evolution in the higher Devachan. Thus the succession is as follows: In the Graeco-Latin epoch Christ appeared on the physical plane; in our epoch He will appear as an etheric form on the astral plane; in the next epoch as an astral form on the plane of lower Devachan; and in the epoch of morality as the very essence and embodiment of the Ego.
130. Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: Jeshu ben Pandira I 04 Nov 1911, Leipzig
Translated by Pauline Wehrle

And in the final epoch, that of the moral impulse, the human beings who have passed through the other stages will behold the Christ in His glory, as the form of the greatest ‘Ego’, as the spiritualised Ego-Self, as the great Teacher of human evolution in the higher Devachan. Thus the succession is as follows: in the Greco-Roman epoch Christ appeared on the physical plane; in our epoch He will appear as an etheric form on the astral plane; in the next epoch as an astral form on the plane of lower Devachan; and in the epoch of morality as the very essence and embodiment of the Ego.

Results 1491 through 1500 of 2238

˂ 1 ... 148 149 150 151 152 ... 224 ˃