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344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Eleventh Lecture 18 Sep 1922, Dornach

Today I would like to call this passage before your soul as it is really meant: You have died, and your ego is separated from you and united with Christ in the spiritual world; but when Christ, who bears your ego, has himself appeared before the vision, then you too will reveal yourselves with him.
Not the earlier souls had died, for then they had not yet shared in the fate of the body, but you belong to the fate of the generation of those who have died, that is, your souls share in the fate of the body; for that which you carry here as an ego consciousness through your physical body is only an image of your true ego. Before the Mystery of Golgotha, although people had looked into their own selves and had glimpsed this true self, it was not yet separate from the human being.
And through feelings that can be stimulated in you by an understanding of these things, you will present to people a truth about the dying of the ego consciousness in the physical body, which is indeed a depressing truth for human beings, but also the uplifting truth of the salvation of the true human ego, in that the Christ can lead the ego through death.
211. Knowledge and Initiation: Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy: Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy 15 Apr 1922, London
Translator Unknown

Anxiety arises in the heart and mind (Gemüt), for man has the feeling that his ego works too strongly. In ancient initiation, before the Mystery of Golgotha, the candidate went through the opposite experience: As he attained to initiation he found that in a sense he was becoming less ego-conscious, that he was pouring himself out into the universe and becoming less in possession of himself. His ego-consciousness was rather weakened than strengthened. The turning point between these two characteristics of initiation is the Mystery of Golgotha.
The other pole is that in spite of the strengthened ego he has gained from evolution he cannot save himself or mankind from the universal death of the soul-life.
212. The Human Heart 26 May 1922, Dornach
Translator Unknown

In the astral, that wonderful entity he has brought with him, there Lives the ego, which, having passed through many earthly lives, has a long evolution behind it. This ego lives in a certain connection of sympathy with all the complex forms that are present in the astral body.
Then, when these astral forms slide into the organs of the physical, as explained above, the ego retains this sympathy and extends the same inner sympathy to the organs themselves. The ego spreads out increasingly into the organs and takes possession of them. From earliest childhood, indeed, the ego is in a certain relation to the organs. But at that time the inherited condition, of which I spoke, is still prevailing; therefore the relation of the organs to the ego is a more external one.
97. The Mystery of Golgotha 02 Dec 1906, Cologne
Translator Unknown

When a Chela has absolved the purification of his three bodies, then he acquires at a certain moment of his life the capacity to sacrifice himself. In his 30th year, the Ego of Jesus left his three bodies and passed over into the astral world, so that the three sanctified bodies remained behind on earth, emptied as it were of their Ego, so that room was made for a higher individuality. In the 30th year of his life, the Ego of Jesus of Nazareth made the great sacrifice of placing his purified bodies at the disposal of the individuality of Christ.
He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. He came to each man (to the individual Ego-man) but the individual men (the Ego-men) received him not. But as many as received him, to them he gave power to manifest themselves as children of God.
214. Christ and the Evolution of Consciousness 05 Aug 1922, Dornach
Translator Unknown

The astral body always comes right down into the etheric body and in earlier times the Ego penetrated far down into the etheric body. In our modern age it is not so. In our age the Ego only comes down into the head-region of the etheric body. In men of olden times the Ego came right down and penetrated into the lower parts of the etheric body as well. Today it only comes down into the head. The outcome of this is man’s faculty of intellectual thinking. If the Ego were at any moment to descend lower, instinctive pictures would arise within us. The Ego of modern man is quite definitely outside his physical body.
68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Significance of Christianity for the Future 04 Feb 1909, Basel

We see how these people speak of a Christian manifestation that is no longer based on external facts, nor on memories, nor does it appeal to the intellect, but to the deepest part of the human being: the human ego, by their fervor point out that the Christ impulse can flare up in every ego, that which Paul himself so significantly presented as the Christ in man (Gal 2:20); it can flare up in each and every individual.
Master Eckhart particularly pointed to the human ego that can experience the Christ within itself. But with such minds, we cannot merely speak of an inner, abstract Christ.
Only gradually can this be absorbed by the human being. But the more the human ego lets the Christ speak through it in its actions, loves and wills, the more it will learn to do so.
111. Introduction to the Basics of Theosophy: Mysticism and esotericism (Microcosm and Macrocosm) 05 Mar 1908, The Hague

We can only understand it imperfectly as long as we do not realize that the animal possesses something in the astral realm that is exactly the same as the ego for the human being. But the animal cannot bring the ego down to the material realm. In the astral realm, we see something completely different from the individual ego of the human being. We see the group ego, the group soul of the animal. These group souls surround the whole earth as currents. When walking along the backbone of the animal, we notice glowing lights, astral lights.
(We then also learn to see things differently and understand them better, for example, how pain is one of the great creative forces in the world). Finally, the ego of the stone is in the higher mental realm. When we look at the stone, we realize that its essence, its ego, is primarily a volitional impulse.
25. Cosmology, Religion and Philosophy: Exercises of Thought, Feeling and Volition 07 Sep 1922, Dornach
Translator Unknown

[ 11 ] Through this ‘intuitive cognition’ we gain a vision of the true nature of the Ego, which in reality is sunk into the spiritual world. The Ego which we know in ordinary consciousness is only a quite faint reflection of its true proportions.
Moreover, we are enabled to see how spiritual man,, the true Ego, has his place in the spiritual world, when he is sunk in sleep. In this condition the physical and etheric organisms require the rhythmic processes for their own regeneration. In a waking condition the Ego lives in this rhythm and in the metabolic processes that are a part of it; in the condition of sleep, the rhythm and the metabolic processes of man have a life of their own as physical and etheric organisms; and the astral organisms and the Ego then take their place in the spirit world.
109. Rosicrucian Esotericism: Man's Experience after Death 11 Jun 1909, Budapest
Translated by Helen Fox

At the moment when the blood that is the physical expression of the ego flowed from the wounds of the Redeemer on Golgotha, at that moment the ego of Christ united with the earth.
The three lower bodies, physical body, etheric body and astral body had been prepared for him and it was on the earth that the ego was first added—the ego as the expression of human freedom and independence. In ancient times it was important to establish the homogeneity of mankind.
But through Christ Jesus love became a non-material bond. The activity of the human group ego declined. In earlier times the human being belonged to a communal tribal ego and he felt safe and secure within it, within the bosom of Father Abraham.
130. Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age I 27 Jan 1912, Kassel
Translated by Pauline Wehrle

The ego still lived in the astral world; but the beings and powers which the ego was able to behold deteriorated into greater and greater impurity.
The time is at hand when the spirit is to stream directly into the ego. Such a man felt that these terrible astral beings were within him, always penetrating into him. Something had to come that transcends the astral, and this is the ego. Through the ego it will be possible for communities of human beings to gather together in freedom of soul, communities no longer determined by ties of blood.

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