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with the adult. On the connection of breathing and puberty. The confrontation of the etheric body (from the metabolic system) and astral body (breathing) which culminates in the age of eight to ten: important point in time for education (change of temperament, turning to the external world). 20(8/12/1921, Dornach) (117ff.) 4564 206-07 The ego-consciousness is engaged in sense-perception, the conceptual life in the astral body, the capacity of remembering lies in the etheric body. Memories are changed to pictures in the physical body, are dammed up. An etheric force (force of growth) is not stiff as a force is in the inorganic, but can extend and contract (suck). These forces become free as instincts in the astral body; instinct becomes will in the ego. 21(8/13/1921, Dornach) (134ff.) 4565 206-08 The ego lives, actually, in the outside world and penetrates into the human being via the sense-perceptions. However, it also lives in the physical body and stimulates the memories from the physical body which then become mental pictures. This meshing of sense-perception and memory was symbolised by the serpent in former times which bites in its tail. The human being does not perceive his real ego in sense-perception, but the reflection of it. The ego works in the memories as a reality, even if less consciously (will). Because these processes always intermingle, the soul is in constant internally whirling movement. The ego-experience in the sense-perceptions and in the memories is objective or rather one cannot differentiate objective and subjective. Such a differentiation is justified with forming mental pictures (subjective images of objective processes). The possibility of freedom in the subjective mental pictures. Freedom cannot be experienced in the spiritual worlds. This experience is only possible in the postmortal life, if we feel back to the earthly life. 21(8/13/1921, Dornach) (143ff.) 4565 206-09 One reaches behind the world of the sensory sensations (in which the ego experiences itself) to the world of the third hierarchy by means of Imagination. One reaches the world the force of memory stems from by Intuition: the first hierarchy. 22(8/14/1921, Dornach) (151ff.) 4567 206-10 building up / destruction Ideation is accompanied by destructive processes in the bodily. Growth (rampant growth) corresponds in the bodily to willing in the psychic. Hallucinations (visions) overgrow the conceptual life with processes of growth: bloated masses of thoughts. 22(8/14/1921, Dornach) (161ff.) 4567 206-11 The border of our sense-perception causes that we are separated from the other beings, however, this is the basic condition for the development of love (expansion of the own being where the consciousness is empty). 22(8/14/1921, Dornach) (164ff.) 4567 206-12 Diving into the etheric and physical bodies one recognises that the spring of the evil is the same force (entity) in the human being to which we owe memory. Thats why it must not ascend in the conceptual life: criminal instincts (centre of destruction). See 207/1 (9/23/1921). Reference to lecture of CW 206 in 207-01.

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