{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 166/1916-02-08/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"A simple reflection can convince you that you cannot observe what we usually call the etheric body. It escapes ordinary physical observation. The astral body also escapes ordinary physical observation, and the *I* even more so, for the essence of the *I*, as we have often said, can be so little observed externally that human beings cannot even name it from outside. If someone were to call out the word “I” to you, you would never come to the conclusion that he could mean your *I*. He can only mean his own *I*. The *I* as such is never named from outside. Yet it is obvious that we know something about it. We name it from within. Thus we can say after all that while the etheric and the astral body are inaccessible on the physical plane, as things stand now, the *I* is not inaccessible. We refer to it by saying “I.” Nevertheless, it remains a fact that the *I* cannot be seen in the same way as the physical body or any other physical object. It cannot be perceived at all by the senses.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"The I, Will, and Human Evolution's Spiritual Crisis","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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Also von außen wird dieses Ich überhaupt gar nicht mehr bezeichnet. Dennoch aber ist es klar, daß der Mensch von diesem Ich etwas weiß. Von innen heraus bezeichnet er es. Also man kann immerhin sagen: Während der Ätherleib, während der astralische Leib für den physischen Plan unzugänglich sind, ist das Ich zunächst für diesen physischen Plan nicht unzugänglich. Wir sprechen, indem wir «ich» sprechen, von diesem Ich. Aber dabei bleibt doch das bestehen: So, wie etwa der physische Leib oder ein anderes physisches Ding, kann dieses Ich nicht gesehen werden. 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