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173b. The Karma of Untruthfulness II: LectureI XVI 07 Jan 1917, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis

In the French individual it is the intellectual or mind soul, and in the British individual the consciousness soul through which the folk soul works. For the folk souls of Central Europe it is the ego that is receptive, and for those of the Slav peoples the spirit-self. If we could fill ourselves with an understanding of this, we should no longer be tempted to form judgements in the way in which they are so frequently formed. A certain person heard this and was furious, because he understood anthroposophical spiritual science to be saying that in the German nation the folk soul works through the ego, as if this was something higher than a folk soul working through the consciousness soul. This was his own misunderstanding!
170. The Riddle of Humanity: Lecture I 29 Jul 1916, Dornach
Translated by John F. Logan

If he had been observed when he was sleeping a healthy sleep—something that must have been a rare occurrence—one would have seen that truly grandiose intuitions and imaginations of the spiritual world were present in his ego and his astral body. So, if we could have observed his ego and astral body when they were separated from his physical and etheric bodies, we would have perceived a grandiose, genial soul, a soul filled with wonderful intuitions and inspirations that were absolutely accurate.
204. World Downfall and Resurrection 03 Jun 1921, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison, Karla Kiniger

Hitherto you have worshipped only the Godhead who created in pre-earthly existence; now you are to revere the principle that is creative in earthly existence. And this must be done through the power of your Ego, of your Spirit. The early Christians, therefore, were wont to say: The end of the world is at hand.
Human beings are as if possessed—possessed by the evil powers who cast their minds into confusion; and they no longer speak as if they were voicing what lives in the Ego. They are possessed as by a psychosis—a psychosis much talked about, but little understood. The downfall of the world conceived by the first Christians has come about and the new era is upon us.
205. Therapeutic Insights: Earthly and Cosmic Laws: Lecture IV 02 Jul 1921, Dornach
Translated by Alice Wuslin, Gerald Karnow, Mary Laird-Brown

Through the father and fertilization comes that which is formed in the physical and what is in the ego. This ego, as it is then, after the Midnight Hour of Existence, actually passes over into an entirely different world.
213. Human Questions and Cosmic Answers: Sunlight and Moonlight, Solar and Lunar Eclipses and their Relation to Man's Life of Soul 25 Jun 1922, Dornach
Translator Unknown

It is exceedingly difficult for modern consciousness to see any relation between the soul and spirit of man and the purely material, physical world around him; and there is, indeed, some justification for the failure to understand Anthroposophy when it says that the soul and spirit of man—that is to say, the astral body and ego—leave the physical and etheric bodies and continue to exist outside them. Where, then, are the astral body and ego?
213. Human Questions and Cosmic Answers: Man's Relation to the Surrounding World 02 Jul 1922, Dornach
Translator Unknown

In nitrogen we cannot live; for that, we need oxygen. But without nitrogen our ego and our astral body when outside the physical body during sleep, could not exist. We should perish between going to sleep and waking if we could not immerse ourselves in nitrogen. Our physical body and our etheric body need the oxygen from the air; our ego and astral body need nitrogen. The nitrogen is a substance which brings us into intimate connection with the spiritual world.
286. Ways to a New Style in Architecture: The House of Speech 17 Jun 1914, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

—This is the prevailing mood of the fourth Post-Atlatean epoch, when human beings are still at one with the earth which the Gods have given into their charge, when the Ego is still slumbering in a kind of dream consciousness, when man still feels himself connected with the Group-Soul of the whole of humanity.
Then man grows more individual, a strong sense of Ego, of “I” arises within him, and Christendom represents the emergence of something that had been prepared through the course of long ages by the ancient Hebrew civilisation.
230. Man as Symphony of the Creative Word: Lecture XII 11 Nov 1923, Dornach
Translated by Judith Compton-Burnett

During his lifetime, however, the human being absorbed very much from them; this he takes with him through the gate of death. The ego and astral body withdraw, taking with them as they go what remained unnoticed during life because it was always entirely submerged in the physical and etheric bodies. The ego and astral body take with them into the spiritual world all the impulses connected with the human body, all the impulses of human hatred and coldness towards other men which had gained access to their souls.
343. The Foundation Course: Anthroposophy and Religious life 26 Sep 1921, Dornach
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Something is continuously developing which belongs to the Jews in particular: the awareness of personality, which is urged by ego development. With the Greeks there developed a mighty inner world beside the outer world of observed nature but this inner world could raise doubts, because it was observed merely as a world of mythology.
In reality our souls are in a spiritualised content, right into our ideas are we spiritualised, but we maintain that through all of this we can only understand a material world. Thus, human beings have grasped their ego through this spiritualisation, but as a result they have become separated from the world. Today humanity must again look for its connection to the world, the search need to be for inner knowledge, there needs to be the possibility to not only have "knowledge without objective meaning" but knowledge with objective meaning, in order for knowledge to reveal the being of the world, and on the other hand to authenticate what is hidden within the human being as objective.
343. Lectures on Christian Religious Work II: Twenty-second Lecture 07 Oct 1921, Dornach

The other thing is that our modern theory of development has led us to limit the content of consciousness so much to the human ego and to develop little interest in how the human ego is connected to the entire universe, so that such things, as I again spoke of yesterday, the necessity of the death of the moral in the downfall of the earth, are no longer felt with the necessary strength at all.

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