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342. Lectures and Courses on Christian Religious Work I: Fourth Lecture 14 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

When the astral body [is considered] taken out of the physical body, it takes on complicated plant forms, and the human ego is a purely mineral, crystal-like being, it is completely geometrically shaped. So that one can say: In form, man is human in the physical body, in the etheric body he is actually animal-like, in the astral he is plant-like and in the I he is mineral-like.
343. Lectures on Christian Religious Work II: Twenty-first Lecture 06 Oct 1921, Dornach

There is always an elevation of egoism in the experience of love, even of the most spiritual kind, and this devotion in love in a merely abstract, even if soul-abstract, form, is something that very strongly leads to ego and this is lived out in our time in the fact that actually the objective sense of responsibility is no longer strongly present in people, but people tend very strongly to the mere subjective sense of responsibility.
153. The Inner Nature of Man and Life Between Death and Rebirth II: The Task and Goal of Spiritual Science and Spiritual Searching in the Present Day 06 Apr 1914, Vienna

There are people today who cannot look back on their past life and remember it in its entirety, who do not know afterwards: You were with your ego in this or that experience; who do not know what they have been through. It may happen that such people leave their home because they have lost the consistency in their mental experience; that they leave their home without rhyme or reason, that they go through the world as if with the loss of their own self, so that it takes them years to find their self again and to be able to pick up where their self left off.
70a. The Human Soul, Fate and Death: What is Immortal about the Human Being? 16 Feb 1915, Stuttgart

If we do this with intense seriousness, if we go out of ourselves with our will and know how to say: what I have experienced as fate, I am already in it, I have brought it about myself, because I am connected with my ego in it. [When we make this a habitual inner activity], then we come out of ourselves again, but in such a way that we draw out the other part of our inner being, which is as it were torn off, that which has not been brought out [is] through the concentration of thought , that we now follow up on that and that it connects with what has been brought out first, and now a whole, initially hidden inner man is drawn out of us, an inner man in whom we then know ourselves to be alive, in whom we know ourselves to be so alive that we now look at this outer, this physical man, as we otherwise look at the outer surroundings, tables and chairs.
66. Mind and Matter — Life and Death: Soul Enigma and World Enigma: Research and Contemplation in German Intellectual Life 17 Mar 1917, Berlin

And Troxler says that one must assume a super-spiritual sense in conjunction with a super-sensible spirit, and that one can thus grasp the human being in such a way that one no longer has to deal with an ordinary anthropology, but with something higher: "If it is now highly gratifying that the latest philosophy, which... . in every anthroposophy.. . must reveal itself in every anthroposophy, it cannot be overlooked that this idea cannot be a fruit of speculation, and that the true individuality of man must not be confused either with what it sets up as subjective spirit or finite ego, nor with what it juxtaposes to it as absolute spirit or absolute personality. With Anthroposophy, something is not presented that emerges, as it were, out of arbitrariness, but something that inevitably leads to that spiritual life, which once it is engaged in, experiences concepts and ideas not only as concepts and ideas, but condenses them to such an extent - and I would like to use the expression again - that they lead into reality, that they become saturated with reality.
61. Death in Man, Animal, and Plant 29 Feb 1912, Berlin
Translated by R. H. Bruce

We remember—and through this alone is it possible for an ego to speak within us—all that we have experienced back to a certain point in our childhood; but we remember only the things connected with our ideas, with our thoughts.
64. From a Fateful Time: What is Mortal in Man? 26 Feb 1915, Berlin

In relation to your entire destiny, you must say to yourself: You are what you are now because your ego has become what it is now. We are fully immersed in destiny. That is to say, we understand that if we want ourselves now, we must want ourselves in our destiny; in other words, that it is I myself who, in destiny, rules, lives and exists.
65. From Central European Intellectual Life: A Healthy Emotional Life and Spiritual Research 04 Feb 1916, Berlin

This is the special fact that must be considered, that all altered consciousness, all morbid consciousness, arises out of the healthy one like a metamorphosis, and that one should never actually speak of a double ego – which has already been criticized by the excellent criminal anthropologist Benedikt – but should speak of an altered consciousness for the usual pathological phenomena.
80c. Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul: The Science of the Spirit and Modern Questions 20 Feb 1921, Hilversum
Translated by Michael Tapp, Elizabeth Tapp

It is through this faculty of memory that we are really an ego. It gives us our ordinary self-consciousness. We look back to a particular year in our childhood, and the experiences which we then had appear in the picture of our memory.
353. The History of Humanity and the World Views of Civilized Nations: The Nature of the Sun – Origins of the Freemasonry: The Sign, grip and word — Ku Klux Klan 04 Jun 1924, Dornach

And the mantle, which was then associated with the helmet, expressed the power of the ego. All these things lead back to old, very ingenious, significant customs that have lost their meaning today.

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