II. Introductory Explanations Concerning the Nature of Man

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The animal does not have man's consciousness, although it has a certain kind of consciousness, just as we have seen it in the case of the plant and of the mineral; but the consciousness of animals lies in the astral world. Man's fourth member, the Ego, constitutes with the other three members, the, “holy fourfold essence” of man, of which all the ancient Schools speak.

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