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• Title: At the Gates: Notes from Answers to Questions - Stuttgart, 2 September, 1906
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  • astral body, on the etheric body, on the physical body. Every human
  • being works on his astral body; all moral education is work on the astral
  • body. Even when a person enters on the process of Initiation, on occult
  • training, he has still much work to do on his astral body. Initiation
  • leads to stronger work on the etheric body through the cultivation of
  • his etheric body.
  • body look like?
  • When the astral body is
  • together with the physical body, it is somewhat egg-like in shape. After
  • a new body for his own next incarnation. The continuity and cohesion
  • realm of marriage: the husband has a female etheric body and the wife
  • a male etheric body. The spirit and soul in the man is more feminine,
  • The external part, the body, is only an outer symbol, only a parable.
  • On the Ego-body
  • The Ego-body appears to
  • The comet gets as far only as the astral body. The visibility of comets
  • arises from the powerful friction caused by the astral body passing
  • chiefly for the etheric body. Cremation provides correctly for the
  • dissolution of the physical body into cosmic space.
• Title: At the Gates: Notes from Answers to Questions - Stuttgart, 4 September, 1906
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  • etheric body was still outside his physical body, and so also, of course,
  • was his Ego-consciousness. His soul worked on the physical body from
  • outside. The horse today has its etheric body still outside.
  • result is an explosion in the astral body of the liar.
  • one's astral body against bad influences?
  • a soul-being and worked on his body from outside. Then he separated
  • is at first outside the fishes: this means the soul working on the body
  • the physical body. Through Initiation the physical body is again left
  • transformed physical body
  • transformed etheric body
  • Astral Body
  • Etheric Body
  • Physical Body
  • if it is given form by being poured into the physical body, rather as
  • water is poured into a jug, then one speaks of the etheric body. The
  • the form of a body, one speaks of the astral body. The Ego is the centre
  • and ennobled, so that Manas may develop from it. If the etheric body
  • the physical body.
  • VII Causal body
  • Arupa VI Causal body
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• Title: At the Gates: Prefatory Note
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  • body.”
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture I: The Being of Man
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  • from one person to another, and nobody who was unripe or unworthy would
  • body. Man has this body in common with the whole world around him; and
  • although the physical body is only a small part of what man really is,
  • this physical body has very special qualities. There are plenty of other
  • body. But man can move, feel and think; he grows, takes nourishment,
  • were like a stone, with only a physical body, none of this would be
  • means of growth and so forth. This is the etheric body.
  • Man has a physical body
  • in common with the mineral kingdom, and an etheric body in common with
  • of an etheric body, although only those who have developed their higher
  • the nature of the etheric body by direct vision must be able to maintain
  • physical body by the strength of his own will. The gap left will, however,
  • not be empty; he will see before him the etheric body glowing with a
  • than young peach blossom. We never see an etheric body if we “suggest
  • it is the etheric body that is responsible for nutrition, growth and
  • and thus have a further principle in common with man: the astral body.
  • The astral body is the seat of everything we know as desire, passion,
  • experience, but for the Initiate the astral body can become an outer
  • cloud which not only surrounds the body, but permeates it. If we
  • “suggest away” the physical body and also the etheric body,
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture II: The Three Worlds
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  • we have been created from out of the invisible worlds. Moreover, nobody
  • desires and passions, which live in what we call the astral body. Ordinary
  • hurled against the other's astral body and injuring it as a gunshot
  • body. This second region is called the “Ocean” of Devachan.
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture III: Life of the Soul in Kamaloka
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  • The physical body, which we can perceive with our ordinary
  • The etheric body, which permeates the physical body with a delicate
  • The astral body.
  • The Ego-body or consciousness body.
  • This “Ego-body” contains:
  • body extends a little beyond the physical body on all sides. The astral
  • body extends about two-and-a-half times the length of the head beyond
  • the physical body, surrounds it like a cloud and fades away as you go
  • bodies remain on the bed, united as in the daytime. The astral body
  • loosens its hold, and the astral body and Ego-body raise themselves
  • out of the physical body. Now since all perceptions, concepts and so
  • on are dependent on the astral body, which is now outside the physical
  • body, man loses consciousness in sleep, for in this life he needs the
  • astral body do during the night? A clairvoyant can see that it has a
  • hover above the physical body, inactive, like a passive image; it works
  • continuously on the physical body. During the day the physical body
  • gets tired and used up, and the task of the astral body is to make good
  • this weariness and exhaustion. It renovates the physical body and renews
  • are different. The etheric body then leaves him, as well as the astral
  • body and Ego. These three bodies rise away and for a time remain united.
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture IV: Devachan
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  • death a man leaves behind him the corpse, first of his physical body,
  • then of his etheric body and finally of his lower astral body. What
  • etheric body takes leave of the astral. It sinks into the unconscious,
  • in the higher astral body and rests there.
  • body. So now he has five bodies: physical, etheric, astral, ego and
  • causal. Once this causal body has made its appearance, it remains, though
  • body. Others have been through only a few lives; hence they have gathered
  • fewer fruits and have a less developed causal body.
  • Devachan his causal body and the purified, ennobled parts of his astral
  • the organs of the body are built up by the creative forces of the universe.
  • his body as it was in his last life, and within him he still carries
  • of the others. Accordingly he forms for himself a picture of a new body,
  • of the fruits of his former lives he prepares the picture of his body
  • qualities, and thus he endows with soul the body he had formed at the
  • prepares the image of his body for his next incarnation. That is one of
  • When a man is asleep, his astral body leaves the physical and etheric
  • the astral body is engaged on its usual task of repairing and restoring
  • harmony to the weary and worked out physical body. When a man has died,
  • his astral body no longer has this task to perform, and in proportion as
  • of the body and at night he had to work on this physical body. When the
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture V: Human Tasks in the Higher Worlds
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  • of his new body. He does this free of all hindrance, and in so doing
  • one sees the love as a real being whose body is love. If you can make
  • plane animals have only a physical, an etheric and an astral body; they
  • drawn to him and slips into his new astral body. He does indeed create
  • a new astral body, but the old one combines with it, and he has to drag
  • the old astral body comes before him as a second Ego, playing tricks
  • with him into Devachan his higher astral body, and the causal body made
  • after a bad one. The bell-shaped forms are made up of the causal body,
  • the forces of the earlier astral body and the new astral body. The germinal
  • human being ought not to encounter the old astral body; his task is
  • to build up a new astral body out of undifferentiated astral substance,
  • of the new astral body are determined by the forces of his previous
  • body to correspond with the astral form and with the contribution by
  • the parents to the physical body. The clairvoyant can descry astral
  • body cannot always be built so as to match exactly the incoming etheric
  • body. There can never be complete harmony. This is the reason for the
  • discord between soul and body in human beings.
  • then enters the body, and this will result in the birth of an epileptic
  • thread in the causal body darkens and disappears. It persists through
  • from the beginning. The causal body is the first to be active, for it
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VI: The Upbringing of Children. Karma.
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  • year it is really only the physical body that parents and educators have
  • to consider. At birth the physical body is released into its environment;
  • intermingled. The physical body of the mother surrounds the physical body
  • absorbed in building up the physical body. At about the seventh year the
  • etheric body begins to be free to receive impressions from outside, and
  • attempt should be made to influence the astral body, or its inward activity
  • — the etheric body goes through a liberation, just as the physical
  • body is thrown open to its environment at birth. During this period,
  • then, we must direct our efforts to the etheric body, the vehicle of
  • desires. Accordingly, when the etheric body is set free we must take
  • with the vibrations of the etheric body. If any musical talent exists,
  • before the child; these are the things which act on the etheric body.
  • makes the etheric body supple and plastic and provides it with lasting
  • the third period of seven years, the age of puberty, the astral body
  • last mature enough for real understanding. As the astral body is liberated,
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VII: Workings of the Law of Karma in Human Life
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  • the Ego-body, in which the higher part of the human being is enclosed.
  • the physical body, in so far as it bears on the law of karma. All our
  • our physical body and on everything connected with it. Our external
  • change in the astral body, for it is the most subtle and delicate and
  • etheric body, which consists of substance much less open to change than
  • is the substance of the astral body. Slowest of all to change is the
  • physical body. It is laid down once for all, so to speak, and retains
  • how the Initiate can work upon his etheric body and can change even
  • his physical body. For the moment we must consider how all this extends
  • so on which transform the astral body during a long life will produce
  • a marked change in the etheric body only in the next life. Thus if someone
  • he must try-to prepare these as much as possible in his astral body.
  • etheric body. If he wants to be born with a good memory, he must exercise
  • will engender in his astral body something which will become a
  • characteristic of his etheric body in his next life — the
  • of the etheric body.
  • in the etheric body, and so there are four main types of etheric body.
  • basic colour to the astral body. This does not depend on the astral
  • body; it only reveals itself there.
  • this will work karmically into the etheric body of his next life: he
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture VIII: Good and Evil. Individual Karmic Questions.
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  • etheric body, becoming in time a permanent characteristic of it because
  • the astral body has been so often convinced that this or that would
  • Both attitudes depend on the etheric body and may even find expression
  • in the physical body. People who in one life have been habitually selfish
  • prepare even the physical body for the next life.
  • achievements of the physical body itself? Its deeds become its future
  • Either the physical body becomes more beautiful as a result of the illness
  • body was still very imperfect; his spiritual body was more highly
  • developed. He was still enclosed within a soft ethcric body, and his soul
  • worked on his physical body from outside. Man still contained all other
  • snail was originally inside its body its house is in fact its body in
  • explanation of children born dead? In such cases the astral body may well
  • have already united itself with the physical body, and the two lower
  • members may be properly constituted. But the astral body withdraws, and
  • so the child is born dead. But why does the astral body withdraw? The
  • an etheric body unless it possesses cells. A stone has no cells or
  • vessels, and so it cannot have an etheric body. Equally, an astral body
  • cannot have an astral body. In fact, if a plant were to be permeated by
  • an astral body it would no longer be a plant, but would have to be
  • provided with cells if it were to be permeated by an etheric body.
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture IX: Evolution of the Earth
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  • the first is, so to speak, the lowest; the etheric body is higher and
  • of finer texture; the astral body is still higher and finer; of the
  • Ego-body only the first rudiments yet exist. It would be wrong to conclude
  • that the highest body now possessed by man is the most perfect, and
  • the physical body the most imperfect. Exactly the opposite is true:
  • the physical body is the most perfect part of the human being. Later
  • but at present the physical body is in its way the most highly developed
  • no mistakes, but the astral body makes many. The passions and desires
  • of the astral body surge against the physical body and overpower it.
  • his astral body. The physical heart keeps the circulation of the blood
  • in order; the astral body incessantly attacks the heart, because it
  • that it can withstand the attacks of the astral body for seventy or
  • eighty years. The physical body is thus in all details the most perfect
  • body, and still less so the astral; the Ego-body is the least developed
  • of them all. The reason is that the physical body has gone through the
  • younger is the etheric body, still younger the astral, and the Ego-body
  • marvellously artistic structure of the human body was then present only
  • a faint indication of what they were to become, the physical body of
  • of primal mineral, with no etheric body round it; hence we can say that
  • body, as with planets today, could be added. Thus on Sun he passed through
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• Title: At the Gates: Lecture X: Progress of Mankind Up To Atlantean Times
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  • one huge body. This was the first stage of our planet.
  • no water, only this subtle material we call ether. The whole body was
  • individual body. A tentacle worked on a body and built up a human form.
  • in another direction and went to work on another body. The resulting
  • a great cosmic event took place: the whole vast ether-body contracted
  • The whole of the Earth's body now began to revolve and thus there were
  • furnished with an astral covering. The united body of Earth and Moon
  • body, however, the astral body had as yet no independent existence:
  • important event: Earth and Moon separated. The smaller body of the Moon
  • to all men, it also has a common body, the air. Not without reason did
  • no longer had a physical body, they were still connected with the Earth.
  • body of an Atlantean extended far beyond and around his head. In the
  • etheric body there was an important point which corresponded with a
  • two points drew together, until the point in the etheric body sank into
  • from our own. The Atlanteans had a much more mobile body, and, especially
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XI: The Post-Atlantean Culture-Epochs
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  • to express what he heard in this way, he would embody it in a sound
  • that he was touching the body of the Godhead. He lived in a religious
  • nature as the body of the Godhead. Gradually they came to see before
  • them only the body of the world, and not its soul. But as the result
  • by a Being whose body it was. They had a quite concrete conception that
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XII: Occult Develpment
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  • in the astral body signify — what passions, for example, they
  • consciousness, even when his physical body is at rest.
  • wheels begin to revolve at specific places in the astral body, turning
  • of the astral body, but their mode of perception is an active one. The
  • are restored by the astral body; by its inherent regularity it can make
  • forces were to be withdrawn permanently from the physical body, the man
  • would be unable to avoid the dangers to which his physical body would
  • when the astral body withdraws. If they are forced out of their proper
  • like the work of a chemist who separates the two liquids. Soul and body
  • the body, is not subjected to the more grotesque passions. But as a
  • result of the separation I have been talking about, the physical body,
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIII: Oriental and Christian Training
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  • but must say to himself: “I need this to maintain my body or to
  • culture must embody a certain pattern which will give expression to
  • body is no longer so sensitive to the flow of certain subtle currents.
  • The body of the Oriental is even nowadays more delicately organised;
  • flow through his body in the right direction. If the Hindu did not bring
  • his body into this harmony, he would risk losing all the benefits of
  • The plant, as it builds up its body, takes in the carbon dioxide and
  • retains the carbon for its body-building purposes. Men and animals eat
  • up his body with it, as the plant now builds up its own body unconsciously.
  • found the Philosopher's Stone and he will transform his own body into
  • kind of prickling pain all over his body. The outer sign is that in
  • The pupil must cease to regard his body as the most important thing
  • for him; his body must become as indifferent to him as a piece of wood.
  • He then comes to look quite objectively on the body he carries with
  • red marks (stigmata) appear at those places on his body which are called
  • on the right side of the body at the level of the heart. The inward
  • his own body objectively, so now he has to develop the feeling that
  • belongs to him as his own body is. The body then extends far beyond
  • the whole planet. The Earth has become his body; he is buried in the
• Title: At the Gates: Lecture XIV: Rosicrucian Training - The Interior of the Earth - Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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  • for example, no astral body, and therefore they could not come into
  • of this: it cannot exist without the etheric body, but it is actually
  • created by the astral body. Similarly, no being can have warm blood
  • body, and warm blood to the Ego. In fact every one of man's organs,
  • of the organ and so out into the Macrocosm. He then feels his body
  • beginning the nature of the Earth's body was such as to hold subsequent