{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-12-13/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Today I would like to point out another example. What we distinguish as physical body, etheric body, astral body and I, these are members of the human soul, we could also say of the human soul life, which, of course on a much higher plane, are related to each other in much the same way as, I would say, on a lower plane the individual color nuances of our color scale. And just as there can be no real knowledge of the inner nature of light and its inner relationships to the rest of the world without imagining this division into color shades, so there can be no real knowledge of the soul without having ideas about how soul members such as I, the astral body, the etheric body and the physical body relate to one another. But just as the individual colors do not simply stand next to each other, but merge into one another, so that one cannot always exactly indicate in the color scale where one shade ends and where the other shade begins, so it is also with these soul members: they merge into one another, and only our minds actually separate them as we usually do.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Second Lecture","site_heading":"The Four Members and Cosmic-Astral Correspondences","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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