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This mirrored image will naturally grow older as the reflecting apparatus, the physical body, gradually loses the freshness of early childhood and finally becomes wobbly and unstable. Yet this “ego,” which is only the mirrored image of the real ego, appears to age for the sole reason that the reflecting apparatus functions less efficiently after the physical body has grown old.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. On the Nature and Destiny of Man and World","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-16","location":null,"word_count":180,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/226/1923-05-16/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Erna McArthur","identified_edition":"AP1966","book_title":"Man's Being, His Destiny and World-Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA226/English/AP1966/19230516p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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