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96. The Festivals and Their Meaning I: Christmas: Signs and Symbols of the Christmas Festival 17 Dec 1906, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

The square is the symbol of the fourfold nature of man; physical body, ether-body, astral body and ego. The triangle is the symbol for Spirit-Self, Life-Spirit, Spirit-Man.
87. Ancient Mysteries and Christianity: The Basic Concepts of the Platonic Worldview 17 Jan 1902, Berlin

He did not succeed in showing that "I" is "You" and "You" is "I", that the individual does not have the right to speak "I" to himself, that he may only say "I" to himself when he has overcome the individual ego. Plato contrasted the earthly diversity and the unity hovering above the earthly. He must overcome the sensual being and can then advance to the eternal.
87. Ancient Mysteries and Christianity: The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life 01 Mar 1902, Berlin

It was this process which made man a symbol and through which the individual, small ego was extinguished, this process which placed him in the service of the divine world order. He had become a symbol for the eternal great world fact.
68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Dangers of Initiation 19 Dec 1907, Cologne

So one must compare the sacrifice of a personality who has nothing within him, who perhaps has no particular ego at all, with the sacrifice of a personality who has accumulated within himself enormous energy and strength.
81. The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science: Anthroposophy and the Science of Speech 11 Mar 1922, Berlin
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

We must realise that when we experience our “I” today it is quite different from what it was when the word “ego” was for instance come across in humanity in earlier times, when the word “aham” was experienced in the Sanskrit language.
167. Things in Past and Present in the Spirit of Man: Shedding Light on the Deeper Impulses of History. Blavatsky 28 Mar 1916, Berlin
Translated by E. H. Goddard

Hence, within the Russian people, within the folk people, not the ruling classes, a direct strong ego as is the case in West and Central Europe can never be developed in the same way. However, the “I” is always veiled over by a certain dreaminess, it almost has something of a dreamy nature in it, because just as the “I” now lives in the 5th post-Atlantean period, so it is conditioned by a special development of the physical body.
195. The Cosmic New Year: The Mystery of the Human Will 28 Dec 1919, Stuttgart
Translated by Harry Collison

Between birth and death the Will, because it is united with our Ego, works through the destructive forces within the bounds of our skin. This same Will works cosmically through our corpse, in the thinking and forming of ideas by the whole Earth, after our death, when we have given our corpse over to the Earth.
198. Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Man and Nature 18 Jul 1920, Dornach
Translator Unknown

The human being can also so strongly immerse himself into the material element that he cuts himself off from the soul-spiritual element, that he sinks himself into the Ahrimanic powers and continues on with these Ahrimanic powers in a world stream alien to our world, but without his ego, which indeed cannot belong to the Ahrimanic world, but which can only find its actually intended development when man follows the normal progressive element, that is, when he joins himself to everything that is connected to the Mystery of Golgotha, when he, above all else, recognises that in our time one has to seek the connection to what can be brought to all mankind in the way of spiritual research.
201. Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe: Lecture XVI 16 May 1920, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

What enables him as a member of the Universe so to work with his Ego, that one can see that what results from his activity is his own? Now of all things of the Universe, of all properties of being in the Universe, one such property is easier to study than others, if one only sets aside the prejudices of modern science, and that is the element of heat.
183. Occult Psychology: Lecture III 19 Aug 1918, Dornach
Translator Unknown

One can already see in such a man as Weininger how today the ego is lying hold of man inwardly in what I may call a more solid and compact way; one can already see very clearly in Weininger's case how this boundary is becoming as it were penetrable, and all manner of things are pressing through.

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