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60. Turning Points Spiritual History: Moses 09 Mar 1911, Berlin
Translated by Walter F. Knox

He clothed his speech in words which emanated from the Ego-consciousness of the human soul, and were, therefore, incomprehensible to Pharaoh, who could only follow the old train of thought.
Moses had brought humanity so far that it could realize that all things that live and weave throughout the cosmos, manifest in deepest and most characteristic form in the Ego. Man may comprehend the world, if it be pictured as a simple unit proceeding from some great universal Ego centre.
Within the Ego is: (5) Atma. Spirit-man as transmuted Physical Body. (6) Buddi. Life-spirit as transmuted Etheric or Life Body.


111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: Occultism and Esotericism 06 Mar 1908, The Hague

The etheric body is already more recent, the astral body is even younger, and the youngest of all is the principle that carries the power of the ego. When we look at the physical body with the eye of the spirit, it must seem to us to be arranged with infinite wisdom.
This material heart, so perfect, is exposed to the attacks that the impetuous astral body, moved by passions, directs at it every day. Later, the astral body and finally the ego - the baby among human principles - will also achieve greater perfection. To follow the development of the ego, we have to look at the development of the earth, of which man is an essence.
Thus, in truth, we are born in fire, guided through air and pass through water, in which latter we have received the astral body. What we call our 'ego' is then still contained in the spiritual atmosphere of the moon. In order to distinguish the state of beings in which the individual ego is active from beings that do not have the ability to express their individuality to the outside world, the speaker uses the occult terms 'sounding® and 'non-sounding (mute) beings.
264. The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One: The Nature and Work of the Masters X 15 Nov 1909, Düsseldorf

Why is it necessary for the human being to withdraw his ego and astral body from the physical and etheric bodies at night? The divine beings who built the physical and etheric bodies into such a magnificent, perfect temple move back into them during the night, while the human being's ego and astral body also enter divine realms.
This disciple reincarnated in Moses, and that he had received a special etheric body can be seen from narrative of the Bible, in which he, as a small child, had to dwell for a while, completely closed off from the world, in the water, so that his ego and astral body would not have a confusing effect on these subtle processes through impressions from the outside. Zarathustra's ego was powerful and strong enough to create a new etheric and astral body for himself during a new incarnation.
130. Faith, Love and Hope: Faith, Love and Hope, the Third Revelation 02 Dec 1911, Nuremberg
Translated by Violet E. Watkin

Something all-embracing, grand, universal, is revealed to mankind as if in these words: There is a primal Being in the spiritual world whose image is here on earth—the Ego. This Being can so infuse His own power into the human ego, so pour Himself into it, that a man is enabled to conform to the norms, the laws, given in the Ten Commandments.
And as we can understand men in their bodily nature only as descending through the generations from this couple, so, in order rightly to understand the greatest gift coming to our ego, we have to trace this fact, that must sink more and more into our ego during earthly existence, back to the Mystery of Golgotha.
John the Baptist said: Change your mood of soul, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. That is, take to yourselves the human ego that need no longer abstain from approaching the spiritual world—a saying which points clearly to what is here in question, namely, that with the event of Palestine the time came for the super-sensible to pour light into the ego of man, so that into his ego the heavens are able to descend.
157a. The Forming of Destiny and Life after Death: On the forming of Destiny 18 Nov 1915, Berlin
Translated by Harry Collison

And because we see it, that gives the starting point for the maintenance of the Ego through the entire life between death and rebirth. It is that which strengthens and invigorates the soul, so that between death and rebirth it always knows: ‘I am an Ego!’ Here in physical life we realise our Ego through the fact—which I have often pointed out—that we stand in a certain relation to our body. Consider: if you reflect closely on a dream you will say: In the dream you have no clear feeling of the Ego, but often a feeling of separation.
When you touch something, however, in coming against something, you know of yourself, you become aware of yourself. We are thereby made aware of our Ego. Not the Ego itself is aroused—the Ego is a Being—but the consciousness of the Ego. The opposition makes us aware of our Self.
314. Fundamentals of Anthroposophic Medicine: Lecture III 27 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Translated by Alice Wuslin

This plastic element is the main field of action of everything that I have described as being connected with the ego organization and the astral organization of the human being. Now it may seem strange that I previously spoke of the ego organization as proceeding from the liver-gall system and the astral organization as proceeding from the kidney system, and that I now say: everything connected with the ego and astral organizations emanates from the head organization. We shall never understand the human organization with all its tremendous complexities if we say baldly that the ego organization proceeds from the liver-gall system and the astral organization from the liver-kidney systems.
We must think of the workings of the kidneys as being radiated back from the head system. What of the the ego-organization in the child? The workings of the liver-gall system are also radiated back from the head system.
326. The Origins of Natural Science: Lecture VIII 03 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar, Norman MacBeth

This process is even more pronounced in regard to the ego organization. This gradually became a very meager experience. The way man looked into himself, the ego became by degrees something like a mere point. For that reason it became easy to philosophers to dispute its very existence. Not ego consciousness, but the experience of the ego was for men of former ages something rich in content and fully real. This ego experience expressed itself in something that was a loftier science than psychology, a science that can be called pneumatology.
105. Universe, Earth and Man: Lecture VIII 12 Aug 1908, Stuttgart
Translated by Harry Collison

We have seen how the various earth-beings are connected with spiritual-beings. Stones and the minerals of the earth have their ego in that which surrounds us in the universe. Plants have their ego localised in the centre of the earth-planet, while their astral principle, which brings about the development of the flower, encircles them above the earth.
Where egos are united within the group-soul there is no true love. Beings must be separated from each other so that love may be offered as a free gift. Only by such a separation as has come about in the human kingdom, where ego meets ego as independent individual, has love as a free gift become possible. This is why an increasing individualism and a uniting of separate individuals had to come about on earth.
228. Man As A Picture of The Living Spirit 02 Sep 1923, London
Translated by George Adams

Truth is, we never bring our real and inmost Ego with us from the spiritual world into the physical and earthly; we leave it in the spiritual world.
I will now show how you can see this picture-character of man more clearly. Let us imagine ourselves asleep. The Ego is away from the physical and etheric body; the astral body too is away. Now it is the Ego which works in the blood of man and in his movements. In sleep the movements cease, inasmuch as the Ego is away; the blood however goes on working, and yet the Ego is not there. We need only think of the physical body and we must ask ourselves: What happens to it while we are asleep?
156. Occult Reading and Occult Hearing: The Human Being and his Relationship to the World 03 Oct 1914, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

When I am confronting a human being, I am within him with my astral body and Ego. If I were not to confront him with my organism I should not see him. The fact that I can see him is due to my organism; but with my astral body and Ego I am within him.
Occult reading begins when man experiences himself in the astral body—just as in the physical world he experiences himself in the Ego—and when the experiences of the astral body are reflected in the etheric body, not as is the case in the physical world, when the experiences of the Ego are reflected in the physical body.
We are not, as I have also told you to-day, wholly within the objects outside us; we are not only in them with our Ego and astral body; but in waking consciousness the Ego also sends part of itself into the physical body.

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