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265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Spiritual Development of Man 09 May 1912, Cologne

In the thirty-third year, for example, the time will come for him to recognize what is necessary for his spiritual development and what sacrifices must be made for him by divine spiritual beings from the time of his birth until his death. 1912 Notes C by Amalie Künstler If we look back to the early days of human development, we see that the human being, with his will and emotional impulses, was not yet in an earthly physical body as an ego-being. He was in a spiritual world as an ego-being. He could only arise as an individual ego-being after the father and mother were there to bring about an earthly body.
This spiritual mother suffers pain and sorrow through the human being when he enters into physical existence with his ego consciousness and absorbs into his soul the forces from this physical existence that kill and consume his body.
Thus man passes through birth into existence, and we see how he, as a child, lives entirely in the pure supersensible forces until the time when he begins to slowly unfold his own ego. Then, little by little, the child's own ego rebels more and more against the guardian angel; this betrays the child, the paternal element.
68a. The Essence of Christianity: The Three Millenia Before and After Christ 23 Feb 1910, Cologne

At one point, he no longer felt the germs of the ego; he was poured out into the whole world. It became less and less possible for people to put themselves in this mood.
The Christ-entity took on such a form that man could feel in his ego as if he could pour the entity into his ego. In the past, he was outside of himself, outside of the world from which he was taken.
The next step was taken in the second millennium of the dark age, in that now, through special developmental processes, the one who had become able to perceive the external God from the mission through the inherited characteristics from external nature - Moses could perceive the ego-God, which man perceives in his own ego, [directly in the elementary events of the world]. The [second millennium of the Dark Age before Christ – the beginning of the Dark Age, the great Kali Yuga 3101 BC, the end of 1899 AD –] is the age of Moses, when the ego-God is perceived in nature.
108. Regarding Higher Worlds 21 Nov 1908, Vienna
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

Has the plant an Ego? Yes, the same exists for the plants as we called a Group Soul in the animal, only here the extraordinary exists, that the Plant-Ego directs itself towards a single place on earth, namely the centre of the earth. It is as if the earth is being radiated from all sides by the Group Ego of the plant, and therefore the plants grow towards the earth. This Ego however we can't see on the astral plane—here we find the animal group soul.
We also find what has been depicted, but the plant-Ego will be sought in vain on the astral plane. The actual plant soul, the plant-Ego is only found in the higher, the actual spiritual world, in the greatest, under layers of Devachan, in Rupa-Devachan.
189. The Social Question as a Question of Consciousness: Lecture V 02 Mar 1919, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Only with deep insight can it be understood how thinking like Fichte's is not suitable for finding the right social structure. Thinking drawn entirely from the impulse of the ego is not able to find the social structure of the ego, any more than the single man can invent speech.
You can read pages of this and simply experience the following: The ego is asserting itself. To begin with many pages are taken up with en analysis of this. Next we come to—the ego fixes the non-ego, which again takes up a number of pages. Thirdly, the ego establishes itself, its limits being the non-ego, and the non-ego being bounded by the ego.—So it goes on through the Wissenschaftlehre in which only these propositions with far-reaching deductions are set forth.
313. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy: Lecture VIII 18 Apr 1921, Dornach
Translated by Gerald Karnow

We said that the ego essentially imprints itself into the system of movement. The effect of lead works especially strongly on this imprint of the ego and takes place in conjunction with the astral imprint.
We have to do with a strong stimulation, a powerful excitation of these ego-imprinting forces in human nature. Everything that arises in lead poisoning tends to destroy the form of the human being in so far as he is an ego.
On the other hand, one may easily undermine the forces proceeding from the ego and astral body—especially those from the ego—when one causes the individual to develop his formative forces again.
325. Natural Science and the Historical Development of Humanity: Lecture I 21 May 1921, Stuttgart
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

It is as if the Ego which usually is experienced in the present moment is spread out over the past. As you can imagine, a transformation of the whole soul life is thus involved during the moments of such experiences.
In other words, we can now float in unison not only with time, but with all that is spiritually objective, external to man; we no longer feel the distinction between cosmic existence and Ego existence in the way pertaining to objective cognition, but we experience the Ego and in the Ego the Cosmos in its concrete variety and multiplicity.
This is the soul condition which holds us during Inspiration. It is not as if the Ego were submerged, not as if the outpouring of the Ego were identical with a suppression of the Ego, but the Ego in all its activity feels that it has become one with the concrete, manifold varied world it now experiences.
12. The Stages of Higher Knowledge: Preface by Marie Steiner
Translated by Lisa D. Monges, Floyd McKnight

Thus the pupil was at the same time protected and guided, and was able to escape the dangers that otherwise would have overpowered him. His ego still hovered above his physical sheaths; his consciousness of self had not yet awakened. To awaken it more and more was the task of the progressing mystery training.
Through it is revealed what lay hidden in the Mysteries of the ancient temples: namely, alongside the knowledge of cosmic evolution, the knowledge of the imminent descent of Christ, and what was sealed up in the Church: the redeeming deed of the liberation of mankind through the Christ and the gradual permeation of the ego of the individual with His power. Instead of personal guidance, the requirement now is that the human being find the way to the Ego of Mankind, to the Christ, through the forces of the time spirit. The consciousness of the individual human being is made mature for the acceptance of the higher ego force; self-consciousness is raised to spirit self. [ 6 ] It is the work of the future.
90b. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds I 11 Dec 1905, Berlin

If you now learn to recognize all things in the same way, if you also elicit the names of things as you do for yourself, if you crawl into things through self-abandonment, through the dissolution of the self, then you will learn all secrets, then every object will say its own ego, then all things will become eloquent. All illusions of one's own self will then have vanished. All things will then proclaim the words within them. [...]
The astral body commits follies against the heart, it intervenes in the wise construction in an unrhythmic and chaotic way. The ego is the real baby, it is at the very beginning. Through these imperfections, man must first develop upwards. The European knows how to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad', 'true' and 'false'. As much as the ego has of impeccable truth, so much manas is in the ego. There is no need to vote on anything that is manasic.
266I. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes I: 1904–1909: Esoteric Lesson 22 May 1908, Hamburg
Translator Unknown

We really have not just four but five members, namely, physical, etheric and astral bodies, a sheath ego and behind that the real I, the true man. We pour all influences from the outer world into this sheath ego; they tear and pull us back and forth. All influences that go from man to man in the way just indicated hit the sheath ego. We must try to strengthen the true, real I that far surpasses the other one. Then we're immune to outer influences.
This true, independent inner I, uninfluenced by the sheath's ego, then tells you the right judgment, if you listen silently and in complete inner quiet and seclusion to what it tells you.
101. The World Ash: Yggdrasil 07 Oct 1907, Berlin
Translator Unknown

We know that in the moment when the etheric body of the head united with the physical head, the ego arose as a clear self-conscious ego. Of course, man had already felt himself to be an ego-being, but until then ego-consciousness had not dawned on him.
Therefore he said to them: “What exists in man to-day, what is now living in him, the ego-personality, comes from three sources. One of these sources, which existed previously but has only now come to consciousness, derives from Niflheim.
In this tree the cosmic forces are gathered together. The tree is the ‘ego-bearer.’ Yggdrasil means ego-bearer. ‘Ygg’ is ‘I’, and ‘drasil’ comes from the same root as the German verb tragen (to bear).

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