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56. Initiation 28 Nov 1907, Berlin

Thereby we overcome the lower self that looks out into the sensuous world. We attain the higher ego of the human being that is spread out in the whole universe. Goethe means this indicating the principle of initiation in his poem The Secrets (The Mysteries) with the words with which we want to close.
54. Reincarnation and Karma as Key to the Mystery of Man 15 Feb 1906, Berlin

One calls this the astral body and in it only the spiritual being of the human being exists which we call our ego, the bearer of our self-consciousness. While we have this, we become on our part again the bearers of atman, buddhi, manas, of that which I have described as spirit self, life spirit, and spirit man.
68b. The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit: Natural Science at a Crossroads 01 Dec 1907, Nuremberg

The spiritual researcher shows that when we sleep, our physical and etheric bodies lie in bed, and outside of them is the astral body with the ego, so that the spiritual and the soul-like human being are lifted out of the physical body. What remains, Du Bois-Reymond finds explainable.
83. The Tension Between East and West: Natural Science 01 Jun 1922, Vienna
Translated by B. A. Rowley

We reach once more the secrets of existence, from which we departed in the course of human development with the unfolding of ego-consciousness, the feeling of self. Now you can all raise a weighty objection here. You can say, for example: there have indeed been individuals with this kind of thinking, ostensibly vital; but the present time, with its insistence on serious research, has rightly turned away from “vital thinking” as it was expounded, for instance, by the philosopher Schelling or the natural philosopher Oken.
192. Humanistic Treatment of Social and Educational Issues: Fourteenth Lecture 20 Jul 1919, Stuttgart

But just as the American and the Englishman, as occultists, for the reasons I have given you, gain knowledge that lies in the sense of the national ego, so the Oriental, by approaching directly the body, which is glowing with racial impulses, through his yoga exercises, gains impulses that are egoistic to the race.
182. Death as a Way of Life: Signs of the Times: East, West, Central Europe 30 Apr 1918, Ulm

And what numerous pastors and priests speak of when they speak of the God they feel in their soul is nothing more than that they sense their own ego, not as it develops here in the physical body, in the physical environment, but as it developed in the spiritual world between death and birth.
174a. Central Europe Between East and West: Eleventh Lecture 02 May 1918, Munich

Today, even if he sincerely wants to be religious, man either worships his angel or his own ego as it was before birth or conception. He calls it his God and attributes it to the word of unknown origin; but what he really feels dawning from the unconscious is himself.
314. Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture I 26 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Charles Davy

Try to realise that man is something very special by virtue of the fact that he is a being of warmth; that in the most various parts of his structure warmth and cold are found present in the most manifold ways. Before we can realise how the Ego lives in the warmth in man, we must ourselves live in the process. There must be an act of Intuitive Knowledge.
314. Fundamentals of Anthroposophic Medicine: Lecture I 26 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Alice Wuslin

Before we can realize how the human being lives with his ego in his own warmth, we must ourselves live into the process. There must be an act of Intuitive knowledge.
231. Anthroposophy as a Demand of the Times 15 Nov 1923, The Hague
Translated by Luise Boeddinghaus

In short, that which we usually only have as a general feeling of ego or self becomes a strongly felt inner activity. If one wants to become a spiritual scientist and not a vague mystic, one must remain conscious and exact.

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