101. Conceptual and Volitional Organism

The I as the animating and directing spiritual-soul, which exists in the thought witness; the I is initially embedded in the external and experiences itself in the semicircle of the thought-witnessing power that is unified with the world; thus it sinks into the etheric, in which the ordinary perceptions separate out of the semicircle, and there are the receptive perceptions. The “real self” forms the body of forms, separates from it the etheric body - here a boundary - from the other side the soul and the ego-concept arise. The head: the organ of thinking; physical formation: in it the processes of perception; etheric formation: in it the processes of thinking. Now the respiratory organism: in it the processes of feeling and the limb of will impulses. Then the nutritional organism: the will impulses and the movements.

In the Organism of Imagination: the process of growth has gone beyond itself, entering mineralization: the spirit can be by itself: it comes to inner formation through imagination and partial inspiration: there it is met by inspiration, which becomes perception, and intuition, which becomes cognition.

In the rhythmic organism: it is based on inspiration – which is met by intuition of perception and inspiration of conception from the organism of conception – as negative content, which is fulfilled by positive inspirational content – and remains negative as imagination: this can be fulfilled by

the nourishing organism: this is developed in what the imaginative organism lacks: intuition and part of inspiration: it lacks imagination and part of inspiration.

The non-physical organism: it has within itself intuition and partial inspiration, from which it is closed off by perception and conception; the partial inspiration and imagination, from which it is closed off by feeling and willing.

Through birth, the I emerges from the intuitive and inspirational content of the world in order to intuitively connect with the organism of imagination; this organism is formed by the imagination and inspiration of the spiritual universe. The same forces are at work in it prenatally that arise postnatally in perception and imagination. After death, this imagined and inspired organism is seized by the inspiration and intuition of the spiritual universe. The organism of will: the I enters into the imagined and inspired content of the spiritual universe, connecting with the pictorial forces of the universe, of which the body-self is made.