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111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: The Development of Humanity through the Cultural Epochs 27 Sep 1907, Hanover

Mankind owes the gradual infusion of love to the high solar beings, who already possessed all parts of the spirit and whose progress had reached its peak. Yahweh lowers the ego; he is the bringer and giver of love, through whom a unified bond is created; it is a mutual giving and taking that furthers the soul in love.
265. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two: Conclusion

Our thoughts turn to the one who left us a year ago today, who poured his wisdom into our hearts with inexhaustible, never-ending gentleness and kindness, whose love embraced and carried the souls of us all, whose strength lifted our earth out of its Ahrimanic material snares, in which it threatened to suffocate, and carried it towards the spirit, on the wings of the ego-transcendence he lived and taught. “Christ in me” - that was his life, his work and his word. In his words he created a structure of indestructible strength, clarity and beauty.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture VII 02 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Through Theosophy, on the other hand, man actually absorbs a wisdom through which the ego is partially torn out of the usual environment of the organs. It can happen that when a person who, through his conventional milieu had observed ordinary moral standards, takes up theosophical teachings, his worser qualities, which up to that time had remained hidden, actually make their appearance.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Gospels and Initiation 25 Jul 1904, Berlin

But one thing is necessary: to have eliminated the personal ego to such an extent that it no longer claims to connect thoughts itself. It is not so easy to understand this, because man claims the right to connect the predicate with the subject.
68c. Goethe and the Present: Goethe's “Faust”, A Picture of His Worldview from the Point of View of the Theosophist 18 Jan 1905, Bonn

Goethe describes [in “Faust”] the great human struggle that leads man to his higher development, through which man gains insight into the spiritual and intellectual world and recognizes that he is forming a divine self, a divine ego. Goethe wants to suggest that the struggle is rooted in the spiritual world, in the prologue in heaven.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Overview of the Year 1923

Language and music relate us to spiritual powers; between falling asleep and waking, they create a connection between our astral body and our ego and the hierarchies. But their influence on earthly events is reflected in historical events, which are, after all, images of supersensible deeds.
Steiner spoke about the significance of the state of sleep for the development of the ego in man: there his soul plunges into the world of the stars. In earthly existence, the ego is initially darkness of life, non-existence, only a hint of the true being.
Through the Mystery of Golgotha, man can now freely acquire a new cosmic and ego consciousness. This meditation concludes with a meditation to gain the I. Medical lectures for doctors were also held on September 2 and 3 [in GA 319].
62. Results of Spiritual Research: The Legacy of the Nineteenth Century 10 Apr 1913, Berlin

But if we consider the spirit that is expressed in this, we must say that now man separates what lives in his inner being, what is connected with his ego, from his world picture. The human ego, the human self, is even more lonely and alone than it was in Greek times.
The legacy of the nineteenth century will be that natural science will fully unite with spiritual science, which says: Man has an ego and an astral body, with which he leaves his physical body and etheric body during sleep, is in a purely spiritual world during sleep with his ego and astral body, and leaves his physical body and etheric body to the laws that are peculiar to them.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The 3rd General Assembly of the Johannesbau Association 22 Sep 1913, Basel

We know that he has descended into these deep spheres, and we must try to understand how a person works his way out in the course of earthly evolution - works out as an ego - in the way that must be out of freedom, in order to once again gain an understanding of the divine spiritual powers that are weaving through the world.
36. Language and the Spirit of Language 23 Jul 1922,

He elaborates it for himself and lives in it as in something identified with his own private ego. This element of abstractedness, it is true, is only perfectly to be achieved in the world of concepts; but to some degree a very near approach to it has been made in words and phrases as actually sensed and used, especially in the languages of civilised nations.
28. The Story of My Life: Chapter XXXVII
Translated by Harry Collison

After I had explained how the members of the human being – physical body; etheric body, as mediator of the phenomena of life; and the “bearer of the ego” – are in general related to one another, I imparted the fact that the etheric body of a man is female, and the etheric body of a woman is male.

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