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92. Richard Wagner and Mysticism 02 Dec 1907, Nuremberg
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
When the cloud-masses condensed into water, man emerged with the beginnings of Ego-consciousness; the central core of his being was felt to lie within himself, and, when he met another Ego-being, he began to make claims on him.
What became of the gold? It became a possession of the human Ego. The universal Wisdom, once bestowed by Nature herself now became a wisdom flowing from the Ego into human deeds and confronting them as a separate independent power in each individual.
Consciousness flowed through all things. One could not say: here is Ego-consciousness and there is Ego-consciousness. “All that the depths conceal, All that pervades the hills and vales, Water and air, is known to thee.
112. The Gospel of St. John: The Cosmic Significance of the Mystery of Golgotha 06 Jul 1909, Kassel
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
From the previous lectures we know that as the fourth principle of his being man has an ego, and that as this develops, the blood is its outer physical instrument. Blood is the expression of the ego, hence with its steady deterioration the ego fell to an ever increasing extent into error, into maya, or illusion. Hence, also, man is indebted for the growing power of his ego to the circumstance that he is provided with blood. But this ego, in turn, he owes in its spiritual aspect to the fact of his having learned to distinguish himself from the spiritual world, of his having become an individuality.
In the blood flowing from Christ's wounds we have the factual symbol of the excessive egotism in the human ego. Just as blood is the expression of the ego, so the blood that flowed on Golgotha is the expression of excess in the human ego.
51. Schiller and Our Times: Schiller's Later Plays 25 Feb 1905, Berlin
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
The wholly tragic conflict—though there is plenty of action, such as that for instance in the Polish Parliament—is centred entirely in the ego; that is the significant thing. We cannot say that our senses, perceptions and feelings are our ego; we are what we are, because the thinking and feeling of the world around us, press upon us. This Demetrius has grown up without himself knowing what his ego is. During a significant action for which he is to be executed, a certain token is found on his person.
But then, when his ego is concordant with the world around him, he learns that he has been mistaken; he is not the true heir.
266-III. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes III: 1913–1914: Esoteric Lesson 27 Mar 1914, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Our thoughts touch each other in the etheric world. Our ego expands in the thoughts that are thought by our etheric body and not by the physical body which is only a mirror or echo.
The more we make our etheric body independent the more we experience that our ego expands into distant spaces, and we also experience our inner life in solitude and one finds one's other, true self in the depths.
Evil arose on earth because retarded Moon beings, luciferic beings, meditate their bad thoughts not on Moon but on earth now and inoculate it into men. On the other side we must feel our ego spread out ever more in space and not inside our physical sheath. The relation of our sensory surroundings to the spirit is felt to be like that of air bubbles or spherically shaped nothings to the water they're in.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: What Leads Humankind Upwards 21 Jun 1910,

Rudolf Steiner
[So] numerous, as the grains of the ear of corn. The human ego at first not an individual. Now still a people's assembly under suggestion or hypnosis - the egos mingle chaotically. I am still little individualized. Before that, all egos and totality - through descending into the physical bodies, individualization occurred. End. 1/ chain to 2 — 2 / then complete chain.
The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: The Whitsun Festival. Its Place in the Study of Karma 04 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

Rudolf Steiner
When we consider how Karma works,1 we always have to bear in mind that the human Ego, which is the essential being, the inmost being, of man, has as it were three instruments through which it is able to live and express itself in the world.
Man really carries the physical, etheric and astral bodies with him through the world, but he himself is not in any one of these bodies. In the truest sense he is the Ego; and it is the Ego which both suffers and creates Karma. Now the point is to gain an understanding of the relationship between man as the Ego-being and these three instrumental forms—if I may call them so—the physical, etheric and astral bodies.
But when we observe the Ego in its life between death and a new birth, we perceive that the Etheric which we have here in the cosmic environment of the Earth has no significance for the human Ego.
119. Macrocosm and Microcosm: The Egyptian Mysteries of Osiris and Isis 25 Mar 1910, Vienna
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
The pupil was compelled to make the resolve to eliminate his own Ego completely, to submit to no impulses of his own and to carry out meticulously what the Hermes-priest instructed him to do.
At a certain moment he could scarcely have escaped the claims of his Ego. For the danger on this descent into a man's inner being is that his Ego may assert itself for its own selfish aims.
He was one who had experienced this transformation; he had laid aside his own self. He eliminated his Ego and felt himself filled with a different Ego. The word Entwerdung (as the opposite of “becoming”) was a beautiful expression used by medieval mystics.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Fourteenth Lesson 31 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Rudolf Steiner
Here [The first verse was indicated.] we see, “I leave”, “I feel”, “I will.” The ego speaks in the answer. In the second verse the ego speaks, but not so egocentrically, but rather says, “My life”, as in “My life extinguishes it”, “My life expunges it”, “My life affixes it.”
He participates in his condition of warmth or of cold with the whole of his ego. Fire inflames his ego. The heart moved by Christ answers: Christ: My “I” blazes in God-Fire, as long as the spirit kindles me. A person does not need the material warmth of earth when the spirit supplies the spark and ignites his ego. For the ego blazes there not in earthly warmth, not in earthly fire, but within the fire of God. But the heart moved by Lucifer answers: Lucifer: My “I” has flaming power through spirit sun-craft.
291. Colour: The Creative World of Colour 26 Jul 1914, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
It is difficult for man, my dear friends, because man, on account of having to perfect his ego in the course of earth's evolution, has risen from this flowing sea of colour to a pure Ego perception.
The colour man's skin in the temperate zones is in essentials the expression of the ego, the expression of absolute neutrality towards the colour-waves streaming without, and it denotes the rising above the flowing colour-sea.
Physical, etheric and astral body were formed during the epochs of Saturn, Sun and Moon respectively, the ego during the earth-period. Man must find the means to spiritualize the astral body again, to permeate it with what the ego gains for itself by working upon it.
319. Spiritual Science and the Art of Healing: Lecture II 21 Jul 1924, Arnheim
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The Ego-organisation is essentially bound up with katabolism; it is of greatest moment in those parts of the human being that are in a state of disintegration.
If we again proceed according to Spiritual Science, we shall discover that here we have to do principally with a faulty and inadequate working of the Ego-organisation. Why is the Ego-organisation not acting strongly enough? That is the question. And we must search somewhere in the functional regions of the human organism for what it is that is causing this weakness of the Ego-organisation.
If that is so, then we must come to the assistance of the Ego-organisation (just as we came to the assistance of the kidneys with the equisetum) by administering something which, if it reaches the required spot by being prepared in a certain way, will there strengthen the inadequate working of the Ego-organisation.

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