{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 155/1914-07-12/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us consider the human soul. In the sense of spiritual science we have a short word which, although it does not embrace all that the expression “human soul” signifies for us, points to something which for us men of Earth fills and permeates the soul element to its farthest limits—we have the short word “I”. In so far as we are men of Earth, our ego-being reaches as far as does our soul-nature. You know that by the name “I”, or ego, we denote one of the four most immediate principles of man. We speak, in the first instance, of four members or principles of the human being—the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the ego. 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Wir haben, insofern wir geisteswissenschaftlich sprechen, ein kurzes Wort, welches zwar nicht alles umfaßt, was menschliche Seele uns bedeutet, welches aber doch auf dasjenige hindeutet, was gewissermaßen für uns Erdenmenschen das Seelische in seinen weiten Grenzen ausfüllt und durchdringt — wir haben das kurze Wort Ich. Unsere Ich-Wesenheit geht so weit, insofern wir Erdenmenschen sind, als unser Seelisches. Indem wir nun den Namen der Ich-Wesenheit aussprechen, erinnern wir uns ja sogleich, daß wir mit dieser Ich-Wesenheit eines der vier uns zunächstliegenden Glieder der Menschenwesenheit bezeichnen. Wir sprechen von vier Gliedern der Menschenwesenheit zunächst: von dem physischen Leibe, dem Ätherleibe, dem Astralleibe und dem Ich. Und wir brauchen uns nur einiges ins Gedächtnis zu rufen, um Ausgangspunkte zu gewinnen für die Betrachtung, die wir in diesen Tagen anstellen wollen. Wir brauchen uns nur ins Gedächtnis zu rufen, daß wir des Menschen physischen Leib nicht so ansehen, als ob für uns seine Gesetze — das Wesenhafte, das er enthält — zu erkennen wären aus demjenigen, was unsere Erdenumgebung zunächst darbietet. Wir wissen, daß wir, wenn wir den physischen Menschenleib verstehen wollen, zurückgehen müssen zu drei vorhergehenden Verkörperungen unserer Erde, zur Saturn-, Sonnen- und Mondenverkörperung; wir wissen, daß in urferner Vergangenheit, während der Saturnverkörperung unserer Erde, der physische Leib bereits seine Veranlagung gewonnen hat; wir wissen dann, daß während der Sonnenverkörperung der Ätherleib seine Veranlagung erfahren hat, und während der Mondenverkörperung der Astralleib. 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