Lecture II

GA 161/1915-05-01/p039 ·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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Follow carefully what I am about to say. The procedure in brain-thinking is this—thought-activity develops in the etheric brain, rebounds against the physical nervous system, thus bringing our thoughts into consciousness. In the case of clairvoyance we, as it were, thrust the brain back; we think with the astral body and the thinking is thrown back to us by the etheric body.

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