The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World

GA 168/1916-12-03/p008 ·1916-12-03 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Throughout our entire physical life, between birth and death, there is a constant interplay between these elemental companions and ourselves. Not only does our well-being depend on the way our elemental or etheric body relates to its satellites, but our relationship to the outside world, to certain external beings, especially to other people, is also regulated by the interrelationships between these satellites and our own etheric body. In the future, there will be a kind of medicine that will take into account what I have just said. There will be a medical-physiological approach that will determine how one or the other of the satellites relates to the etheric body, and on this basis it will be possible to assess whether a person is sick or healthy. For what we actually call illness today is in truth only the outer physical image of what is really there. In reality, there is some irregularity in what I have compared to a planetary system, and illness is only a reflection of this irregularity.

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