V. Spiritual Conditions of Evolution Leading Up to the Anthroposophical Movement

GA 237/1924-07-11/p007 ·1924-07-11 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
Record: unknown. How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.

Again, when we consider the moment of falling asleep nowadays, the peculiar thing is this:—when the Ego and astral body leave the physical and etheric, the Ego very quickly absorbs the astral body. And as the Ego confronts the cosmos without any kind of support, being unable at its present stage to perceive anything at all, man as he falls asleep ceases to have perceptions. For the little that emerges in his dreams is quite sporadic.

Read this passage in another edition
DEoriginalENEnglish
Raw JSON: /v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-07-11/p007.json
Cite: GA 237/1924-07-11/p007 · edition English