Lecture II

GA 161/1915-05-01/p029 ·1915-05-01 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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This, therefore, is the process we go through during what is called the first stage of initiation. The process consists in our removing our thinking (it is no longer thinking, only the activity of thinking) from the etheric body to the astral body, getting over to the more volatile etheric body the retention of the traces which formerly the physical body held. This is the essential feature of the first stage in initiation. It is essential that the activity formerly carried on by the etheric body should be handed over to the astral body.

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