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291. Colour: Colour-Experience 06 May 1921, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

We bear to the light the same relationship as that of our ego to the world, yet, again, not the same; for we cannot say that when the light fills us we gain the ego.
Our ego, that is, our spiritual entity, is connected with this condition of illumination. If we consider this feeling—all that lives in light and colour must first be grasped as feeling—if we consider this feeling we shall say: There is a distinction between light and that which manifests itself as spirit in the ego, in the “I.”
We shall have an experience through the light in such a way that by means of the light the ego really experiences itself inwardly. If we sum up all this, we cannot but say that the ego is spiritual and must experience itself in the soul; this it does when it feels itself filled with light.
233a. The Easter Festival in relation to the Mysteries: Lecture II 21 Apr 1924, Dornach

Now in the human being a single soul-and-spirit gathered together in an Ego makes its appearance. But in the organism of the universe, spiritually seen and considered, it is not a single soul-and-spirit that comes to expression, but a multiplicity.
It is for the astral body and especially for the human Ego that he will turn to the Sun. He knew that for the full inner force of the Ego, of the “I am”, he must go to the Sun.
Man learned that for the etheric body he belongs to the planetary system, whereas for the inner force and permeation of his Ego above all and of his astral body, he must look up to the Sun. Such indeed was this initiation. Man himself became one with the Moonlight.
348. Health and Illness, Volume I: Spiritual-Scientific Foundations for a True Physiology 20 Dec 1922, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

If we were as cold as a fish or a turtle, we would have no ego; we could not speak of ourselves as “I.” We could never think if we had not transformed the sense of smell within us, or, in other words, if we had no astral body. Likewise, we would have no ego if we did not possess a portion of warmth within us. Now, someone might say that the higher animals have their own body temperature, too.
When we are surrounded by an amount of heat that enables us properly to say “I” to ourselves, we feel well, but when we are surrounded by freezing cold that takes away from us the amount of warmth that we are, we are in danger of losing our ego. The fear in our ego makes the cold outside perceptible to us. When somebody is freezing he is actually always afraid for his ego, and with good reason, because he pushes the ego out of himself faster than he actually should.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture I 26 Sep 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

The snake is the first to enclose within a tube the selfless undifferentiated gaze of the Earth Spirit, thus forming the basis of ego hood. This fact was impressed on their pupils by the esoteric teachers in such a way that they were able to say to themselves: ‘Look at the snake and you will see the sign of your ego’. This had to be accompanied by the vivid experience that the independent ego and the snake belong together. Thus an awareness of the significance of the things around us was developed, so that the pupils endowed each being in the realm of Nature with the appropriate feeling-content.
On our present Earth, man achieves waking consciousness. The ego has clear day-consciousness. Higher development consists in this, that one casts out what is in one's own being in the same way as man has cast out the snake, thereby retaining the snake on a higher level in his spinal cord.
227. The Evolution of Consciousness: Initiation-Knowledge — New and Old 21 Aug 1923, Penmaenmawr
Translated by Violet E. Watkin, Charles Davy

The higher members of man's nature, the astral body and the Ego-organisation, leave the physical and etheric bodies, returning to them when the time of waking comes.
Out of these two bodies we take into the spiritual world, where as Ego and astral body we pass the time of sleeping, something quite different from anything we experience in our waking state.
Only the egos and the astral bodies are always the obstacles to this cleverness coming to the surface. That is what I have always expressed in my lectures: the ego is actually the baby in the human being, it is the most undeveloped.
167. Things in Past and Present in the Spirit of Man: Man's Four Members 25 Apr 1916, Berlin
Translated by E. H. Goddard

We carry all that in us unconsciously. If we are able to separate the ego out of the human being as we have just done with the ether body and the astral body, separating it out completely, then we would receive the whole picture of the mineral kingdom with all its differentiated mysteries of the cosmos. That which is actually spread out in the whole cosmos is contracted together into this ego. Thus we carry the mineral cosmos within us. In this way we get a picture of what man actually is and how he is related with the cosmos.
For a few days after death things are entirely different when the ether body is held together by the ego and astral body. After that it is given over to the cosmos and then it works as I have often told you.
65. The Spirit of Fichte Present in our Midst 16 Dec 1915, Berlin
Translated by Beresford Kemmis

It must be a creating reality. This is the Ego itself, that Ego which recreates itself every moment, that Ego which is grounded not on a completed being, but on an inward activity. This Ego cannot be deprived of its being, since that being consists in its creation; in its self-creation.
“Why yes,” said Goethe, “that is the philosopher who derives everything from the Ego! It is truly an inconvenient way of being assured of the existence of the non-ego, to have one's windows smashed; that was not what one assumed as the contrary of the Ego.”
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Human and Animal World

In the natural order, the spirits of form are at work (with the higher hierarchies); they are contained in everything that man perceives in mineral and plant nature - therein sleeps and dreams his ego and his soul body - during physical life -; during spiritual life, man is in a world that is composed of the ideas and feelings experienced in the human and animal.
IV: The realm of the individualized spirit that has become the ego is experienced as an inner world. Christ the organ to the spirit restored.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: The Course of Human Life from the Standpoint of Spiritual Science 05 Nov 1908, Hanover

Now he must take in from his environment and process it within himself, so that he has become rich in external experiences by the time he reaches his thirties. Now the ego comes into play, working in the opposite way, to influence the astral body, etheric body and so on. Now the ego comes into play to transform the ideals into external experiences. It is only from the age of 35 to 40 that his judgment becomes valuable to his environment.
94. The Gospel of St. John: Lecture III 05 Mar 1906, Berlin
Translator Unknown

One said they were members of a soul-family tracing right back to a common ancestral pair—members of a hidden ego. An initiate of the second grade, an “Occult One”, had so ennobled his ego that it became the ego of his community; he made their interests his own. The occult entity of a human community was able to live in him. When the ego of such a human community became the ego of an individual initiate then this community became his dwelling place.
In ancient Palestine one designated as a “Lion”, he who had raised himself up to encompass the consciousness, the ego, of a whole tribe. The “lion” of the tribe of Judah is the term applied to someone who had reached such a stage of initiation that he bore within himself the ego of the whole tribe.

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