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240. Karmic Relationships VIII: Lecture VI 27 Aug 1924, London
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

After these few days have elapsed he lays aside his etheric body and lives on then in his astral body and Ego. What happens thus to the man who has passed through the gate of death, appears to the eye of vision as if the etheric being were dissolving.
While all this of which I have been telling you was happening in the West, the Christ Himself, the Christ Who had come down to earth leaving His Spirit-Man on the Sun and His Life-Spirit in the atmosphere around the earth, bringing down His Ego and His Spirit-Self to the earth—the Christ was moving from East to West in the hearts of men, through Greece, Northern Africa, Italy, Spain, across Europe.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Fourth Lesson 07 Mar 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Then we may recollect that lying within us, made by means of the earth, is all that draws us down and under, beneath the human, that darkens our ego, that drives us into sub-humanity. However, we must bring this into awareness, this being united so with the earth, in spite of all the beauty and livability spread over the face of the earth, this being pulled down and under as human beings, sinking in this way into sub-humanity.
2. Here das Ich may be translated as the ego, which although proper in English, carries some psychological overlay. What is here referred to is that part of one’s essential nature that produces the phrase I am.
56. The So-Called Dangers of Initiation 12 Dec 1907, Berlin

First, it concerns penetrating deeper and deeper into the truth and knowledge of occult science, and not taking such ideals as, for example: you shall overcome your ego.—With such a phrase nothing at all is done. Nothing is done if, for example, a stove stands here and I say to it: you should be a good stove; you must make the room warm.
Because it detracts the interest in many respects from the small point, which one calls the ego. The theosophical or spiritual-scientific truth is so great, so mighty, and significant, and claims us so strongly that we feel very uninteresting as a single personality.
4. The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity (1963): Thinking in the Service of Understanding the World
Translated by Rita Stebbing

Philosophers have started from various primary antitheses: idea and reality, subject and object, appearance and thing-in-itself, ego and non-ego, idea and will, concept and matter, force and substance, the conscious and the unconscious.
The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Comment V. The Application of Intelligence to the Human Body

The so-called “Creationism”—the doctrine that every soul at birth is created by God absolutely anew—is the inevitable consequence of a thought-system which through “abstract affirmation” would allow heaven to triumph completely over the earth in man, without having the disposal even of the powers of the human Ego, which have been acquired with difficulty through centuries, during which the Ego had to find and assert itself without God or spirit in the universe of material reality, suppressed by Nominalism with its feeble abstractions.
78. Fruits of Anthroposophy: Lecture VIII 06 Sep 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

When the results of Imagination are revealed, man's soul perceives—and I have already described this in these lectures—everything encompassed within his life from the time of birth as one cohesive stream. The ego grows beyond the here and now, sensing and experiencing itself within the whole river of life, from the time of birth.
As we begin to find ourselves, as we learn to express in summary form what we experience in our spirit, in our ego, we arrive at the whole of our self opened out and spread out, the self that encompasses temporality and eternity.
68b. The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit: How Do We Understand Illness and Death? 21 Jan 1907, Nuremberg

The “I”, that power that enables him to do so - let us say the “ego body” - is the fourth link in the human being, so that we initially recognize four links in the human being.
When a person sleeps, the physical body and the etheric body lie in bed. The astral body with the ego has stepped out. What does this astral body do at night? If we look at this, it sheds light on the nature of the entire human activity in the world.
83. The Tension Between East and West: The Problem (Asia-Europe) 09 Jun 1922, Vienna
Translated by B. A. Rowley

When, some years ago, I was often called upon to lecture to audiences of working men, I saw a good deal of evidence that there did exist in men's souls this problem of articulating the ego into the general social order. Men are unable to find the way from a highly developed sense of self into the social order.
This shows the kind of bewilderment that ensues when the question arises: How is the ego, strengthened within spiritual life, to articulate itself into a social order? In another working men's association (I am giving one or two examples, which could be multiplied indefinitely), someone said: “Oh, we don't really want to be foremen; we don't want to manage the factory; we want to remain what we are, simple workmen; but as such we want all our rights.”
235. Karma: The Karma Question and the Hierarchies 17 Feb 1924, Dornach
Translated by Henry B. Monges

Now, what comes to manifestation there lives in our real ego, in our ego organism, and extends its life from a previous earth existence into a later one. Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi: First Constituent of Karma—Comfort, Discomfort.
197. Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind: Lecture III 09 Mar 1920, Stuttgart
Translator Unknown

People felt that if they spoke to someone who had been properly trained in this respect it was not the ordinary ego that spoke to them: i.e. an ego born in some place or another, bearing the imprint of some social background or other.

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