23. The Influences of the Sun and Moon on Man

When a person stands before us today with his ego in his waking state, these three soul members live in their corresponding bodies. These three bodies are interwoven with the soul members; these three are also dependent on a certain environment. Man is threefold dependent on his surroundings during the waking state. What does it actually mean, then, when we look at day-waking in relation to the world? It means that what is out of the physical body and etheric body during the night is called into the physical and etheric body by the rising of the sun. And when the sun sets again, that which had been driven in through the rising of the sun, the astral body and the ego, is driven out of the physical and etheric body.