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34. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: The Sensory Life of Plants 01 Jan 1906,

Beings that react so surely, so diversely, so promptly to the outside world must, of necessity, also possess those connecting paths between their ego and the outside world that we call ‘sense’ and ‘sense organ’ in the case of ourselves.” And it is out of this conviction that researchers have sought the special “sense organs” of plants.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: The Rounds on the Seven Planets 26 Dec 1904, Berlin

During the sixth root race, which will replace our Aryan one, the working-in of Manas will continue to proceed. The chakras, the mental organs, and the human ego will develop during the following round. How does such a development take place? What happens during an initiation?
90c. Theosophy and Occultism: Embryology, Sexual Reproduction 18 Sep 1903, Berlin

I was asked a very pertinent question: When and how does the union of the ego, the actual human self, with its various bodies take place? In answering this question, I am obliged to go back a long way.
319. Anthroposophical Medical Theory and Human Knowledge: Fourth Lecture 02 Oct 1923, Vienna

We come to the astral body, to the actual soul and to the ego organization. Over the last three to four hundred years, knowledge has developed in such a way that more and more has been left out of the spiritual, higher part of the human organization.
143. Reflections of Consciousness, Super-consciousness and Sub-consciousness 25 Feb 1912, Munich
Translator Unknown

Moreover, a human being at this stage of development is no longer able to control such a fact through his Ego. This lack of control cannot arise when we undergo a regular, sound and absolutely careful training; for then the Ego accompanies all experiences in every sphere. But as soon as the Ego no longer accompanies all our experiences, the fact described above can arise in the form of an objective outer happening.
18. The Riddles of Philosophy: Reactionary World Conceptions
Translated by Fritz C. A. Koelln

How the thought-images condition each other, how they effect one another, what results they produce through their coexistence are things calculated by Herbart. The “ego” is not the spiritual entity that we lay hold of in our self-consciousness, but it is the result of the cooperation of all thought-pictures and thereby also nothing more than a sum, a last expression of relationships.
This condition is expressed by the fact that all these relationships are tending toward a center, and this tendency expresses itself in the thought of the ego. [ 2 ] Herbart is, in another sense than Goethe, Schiller, Schelling, Fichte and Hegel, a representative of the development of modern world conception.
It existed when this apparent life contained within man's ego began, and will again withdraw from these relations when this life ceases to continue independently.
61. The Hidden Depths of Soul Life 23 Nov 1911, Berlin
Translated by A. Innes

If these assumptions of spiritual science are correct, how do we explain our relation to the outer world, and does our ego register the conscious impressions this outer world makes on our soul? In regard to all this we, as men belonging to the physical world, must first depend on our sense organs and our intelligence linked with the instrument of the brain.
Now when spiritual science informs us that from falling asleep to re-awakening man is absent from his physical and etheric bodies, and finds himself in his astral body and ego in a super-sensible world invisible to the outer eye, we must realise that the cock's crowing has jerked the woman out of this super-sensible life.
When in childhood man gradually develops from within outwards, this same inner core that later goes on working in him functions prior to the advent of ego-consciousness up to the point of time to which the first memory can be traced. The whole being of mankind is involved in continuous self-transformation.
63. Michelangelo 08 Jan 1914, Berlin
Translated by E. H. Goddard

They sought to attain their purposes only by actual thinking by the conscious ego. They rejected everything that was subconscious or Sibyl-like, even if it foretold the highest things.
Use every means that Spiritual Science gives you to look at them and think about them; then if we remember that what anthroposophy calls the ego and the astral body leave the physical and etheric bodies at night, and if we ask ourselves what qualities and gesture of the etheric body we should select to represent plastically the truth which Spiritual Science tells us—how, that is, we should picture the physical body of the sleeping human being if we really feel him to be what Spiritual Science describes him as being—we know that he should be represented in the form which Michelangelo has given to “Night”.
Michelangelo stands at the beginning of the age whose task it was to trace out the inner qualities, especially those that exist within Christianity, if we understand it more inwardly and in the present age see how the human soul is to be found within the human ego as Anthroposophy teaches, in close relation with the soul which moves and surges through the world.
64. From a Fateful Time: The Human Soul in Life and Death 26 Nov 1914, Berlin

And whereas we used to separate ourselves from our destiny, whereas we used to stand apart as a special ego, now the special ego flows into the stream of these events of destiny. But it flows into it in such a way that it does not just stand there like a result in the stream of the present; but by gradually experiencing this flowing together, our destiny takes our ego – that which we are – with it, so to speak.
174a. Central Europe Between East and West: Third Lecture 23 Mar 1915, Munich

When its etheric body was still united with the astral body and the ego, what I have described above entered of its own accord. The personality that had passed through the gate of death came and told me that she now feels within herself what she has become through spiritual science, what she feels within herself now that she is no longer confined by the physical body.
I said I had lost it, I only realized much later where it actually was: I was in it myself. It was a dissolving cloud. The ego and the astral body had already been separated. Because I was inside it, I did not perceive the aetheric body, like a cloud in which one is stuck; but what lived in it gave the inspiration to shape the words I read.
The German will recognize through spiritual science — he needs to understand this in all objectivity and humility — that he is predestined to seek the universal human through his nationality through what the national soul speaks to his ego. That he perceives what leads him beyond nationality, that is the national essence of the German.

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