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88. On the Astral World and Devachan: Lesson IV Berlin

When man, originally still in connection with the divine geniuses, forming a whole with them, separated into an individual being in the astral sphere and attained to ego-consciousness through imagination, then Manas, the third principle, descended into the astral sphere: united with Kama, enclosed in the brain of man, he formed his Kama-Manas body.
68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Occult Significance of the Gospel of St. John 28 Feb 1909, Elberfeld

The physical human being is born out of the spirit. The ego is the divine spark that has flowed out of the spiritual ocean like a drop into man. Thus we see how, starting from the physical body, the other forms become ever more refined and ethereal.
283. The Occult Basis of Music 03 Dec 1906, Cologne
Translated by Charles Waterman

The ether-body is lower than the astral body, but in activity it is superior. From out of his Ego man works on his bodies in so far as he transmutes the astral body into Manas, the ether-body into Buddhi, the physical body into Atma.
124. Background to the Gospel of St. Mark: The Tasks of the Fifth Post-Atlantean Epoch 07 Nov 1910, Berlin
Translated by E. H. Goddard, Dorothy S. Osmond

The third period, to about the twenty-first year, covers the development of the astral body. Then follows the development of the Ego, with the progressive development of the Sentient Soul, the Intellectual or Mind-Soul and the Spiritual Soul (Consciousness-Soul).
It is significant that the fourth post-Atlantean epoch may be compared with the period of Ego-development in man's life. It was in this epoch that the ‘I’ of humanity itself streamed into evolution, at the time when man was further removed from the spiritual world than he had ever been and was therefore at first quite incapable of accepting Christ except through faith.
124. Excursus on the Gospel According to St. Mark: A Retrospect 17 Oct 1910, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Now you must realise that all spiritual development depends on our inner being—our astral body and ego—becoming free, that we become able to see, that is learn to become consciously clairvoyant of that which lives unconsciously within us from the time we fall asleep till we waken; and because it lives there unconsciously, can cause no harm.
The strength we otherwise received directly from our physical body and etheric body must now be within us, so that we can endure and withstand the impact of the world. We must develop this power in our ego and astral body. This is done by following the rules you have received, and which are found in my book, “Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and how to attain it.”
127. The Mission of the New Spirit Revelation: The Different Ages of Human Development 05 Jan 1911, Mannheim

But this can only be achieved if people's free will intervenes. For once the ego has taken hold in human nature, man must also develop free will for the development of the ego. So it depends on each individual whether he wants to show understanding for spiritual development, or whether he wants to steer the descent that humanity is taking today.
112. The Gospel of St. John: The Baptism with Water and the Baptism with Fire and Spirit 30 Jun 1909, Kassel
Translated by Harry Collison

Recall here that the blood is the expression of the ego, then ask yourself, What would a man want to do when he sees some peril approaching? He would assemble his forces and consolidate them in the center of his being. The ego, with the intention of making a stand, draws the blood back into the center of its being. There you have physical processes resulting from psycho-spiritual processes; and similarly, the flow of tears is a physical process brought about by soul and spirit.
113. Goethe Celebration 28 Aug 1909, Munich

This image, which is supposed to represent the victory over the external world, appears in the most diverse ways, in particular in that the esoterically victorious hero puts his hand into a bear's mouth, and that the blood wells out as the surplus ego. The blood is the expression of the ego, and here it is the image of excessive egoism. The dragon is the symbol for the southern view of the world; the hand thrust into the bear's mouth is the symbol for the northern view of the world.
146. The Occult Significance of the Bhagavad Gita: Lecture IX 05 Jun 1913, Helsinki
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

Thou shalt be neither sattwa, rajas nor tamas man.” Thus is Krishna the great educator of the human ego. He shows its separation from its environment. He explains soul activities according to how they partake of sattwa, rajas or tamas.
He must say, “I have to come; I have to give thee the ego-man, a gift that shall impel thee to activity.” If it had all remained passive as before—a being interwoven with the world, devoted to the world—the new age would never have begun.
120. Manifestations of Karma: Karma of the Higher Beings 25 May 1910, Hanover
Translator Unknown

In the course of time, into these sheaths we have built by means of our Ego the sentient soul into the sentient body, the rational or mind soul into etheric body, and a consciousness soul into the physical body.
But because in the daytime we are living in our Ego-consciousness and astral consciousness, we must not believe that the other kinds of consciousness are absent.

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