4. The Human Organism Through the Incarnations
GA 169/1916-06-27/p010
·1916-06-27
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English
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How does ego activity express itself in relation to our other parts? How do all the things we do between waking up and falling asleep, that is, in full consciousness, manifest themselves? They manifest not in building up and growth, but in breaking down, in a depletion of the substances of the physical body and of the movements and forces of the etheric body.
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