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170. Memory and Habit: Lecture I 26 Aug 1916, Dornach
Translator Unknown

The cohesion of experience is necessary if there is to be true Ego-consciousness. I have called attention to this fact on many occasions. You all know that memory begins to function at a certain point of time during our earthly life and that experiences occurring before this point of time are sunk in oblivion.
The development of habits in the right way during earthly existence is necessary to the unfolding of Ego-consciousness. For what had we in the place of habits during the Old Moon period of evolution? At that time, whenever anything had to be carried out by us or through us, we came under the direct influence of the higher Beings of the spiritual world.
201. Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe: Lecture I 09 Apr 1920, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

It is then that they first become our own. We could never have attained to the ego-concept if we were not able to perceive, together with what we experience on the right, also that which we experience on the left. By simply laying the hands one over the other we have a picture of the ego-concept. It is indeed true that by beginning to use clear images instead of living merely in phraseology, man will become inwardly richer and will gain the faculty of visualising the Universe in greater detail.
212. The Human Soul in Relation to World Evolution: The True Nature of Memory II 05 May 1922, Dornach
Translated by Rita Stebbing

The characteristic feature of sleeping man is that the very factor that makes us human—the experience of the I or ego—is absent. This situation is usually described by saying that the I, between falling asleep and waking up, is outside of what is present before us as physical man.
On the gaseous waves moves astrality and in the warmth flowing through the body moves the actual I or ego of man. So you have the physical body as such, then the fluid body, which is also physical but differentiated from the solid physical body.
302. Education for Adolescents: Lecture Two 13 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Carl Hoffmann

What this means is that we form ideas and mental images with the etheric body, supported by the head organism; we make our judgments—in an elementary, original way—with our astral body, supported by our arms and hands; and we draw conclusions in our legs and feet—because we do this with our ego, and the ego, the I, is supported by legs and feet. As you can thus see, the whole of the human being participates in logic.
314. Physiology and Therapeutics: Lecture III 09 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Alice Wuslin, Gerald Karnow

The soul-spiritual then flows out without being encompassed in the right way by the ego-consciousness, and as a result all the forms of illness arise that we designate inaccurately as mental illnesses (see Note 2).
If the human being inappropriately holds back this process of plant formation active within him, so that he doesn't permeate the bodily life in the right way with what is active in the head—the astral, the ego-being—and if this then penetrates the bodily nature, this penetration expressing itself within the body, then something is held up there, something that should proceed into the human organism.
315. Curative Eurythmy: Lecture II 13 Apr 1921, Dornach
Translated by Kristina Krohn, Anthony Degenaar

You will profit further by coming to terms with the following: the “I” reveals man as a person, the “U” reveals man as man, the “O” reveals man as soul, the “E” fixes the ego in the etheric body, it permeates the etheric body, strongly with the ego. And the “A” counteracts the animal nature in man.
287. The Building at Dornach: Lecture I 18 Oct 1914, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Homer's way of depicting how Agamemnon outgrows the bygone age and is placed on his own feet, on the spearhead of his own ego, is wonderful indeed. And he further implies that from henceforward everything must undergo a like transition, so that men will act in accordance with what the reason brings to pass, with what we term the Intellectual or Mind Soul, which must be ascribed pre-eminently to the ancient Greeks. Because Agamemnon is only just entering the new era and behaves in a quite erratic and contradictory way, first in accordance with his clairvoyant dream and then out of his own ego, Homer has to call in Odysseus, a man who reaches his decisions solely under the influence of the Intellectual Soul.
291. Colour: The Connection of the Natural with the Moral-Psychical. Living in Light and Weight 10 Dec 1920, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

We know that the phenomenon of sleeping and waking means that man is released in his ego and his astral body from the physical and etheric body. What does this mean in reference to the Cosmos?
Imagine physical and etheric body, astral body and ego bound together during wakefulness and separated during sleep: What now is—I might call it—the cosmic difference between the two?
232. Mystery Knowledge & Mystery Centres: On Man’s Life Of Soul 23 Nov 1923, Dornach
Translated by E. H. Goddard, Dorothy S. Osmond

But once you achieve the experience of thinking I described just now, you are not grasping the world; nor are you riveted in your ego. Something quite different happens. You get the feeling—and quite rightly—that with your thinking which is not localised in any particular place, you grasp everything inwardly.
Now a man is farther away from himself when he is asleep than when he is awake, for during sleep his astral body and ego are outside his physical and etheric bodies. You will be able to approach this astral body, which as I have said, is outside the physical body during sleep, if you summon up some past experience as vividly as possible into the present.
346. Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse: Lecture V 09 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Here you have a kind of shadowy counter image of what you must train yourself to do, when you take apocalyptic things into your ego in the way I mentioned, so that your ego becomes' a sum of active forces which are also apocalyptic.

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