{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266c/1914-04-25/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we really want to see the spiritual world correctly, we must think away everything in the physical world from the spiritual world, and space as well. In the spiritual world there are no things and facts as in the physical world, but only beings and relationships between beings, deeds of beings. If, for example, one feels warmth in the spiritual world, this does not emanate from a thing, but radiates from a being, and it signifies a relationship between one spiritual being and another; the same is true of a flow of light. Why do we not really perceive this physical and etheric body, why are we not aware of the weaving and creating and living of countless elemental beings around us? Because the desire to be an I, to live in our physical body, fills us so passionately in our sleep (through Lucifer) that we perceive nothing else; otherwise we would see the physical and etheric bodies as a marvelous work created by legions of elemental spirits. What are they working on? On our senses; and we can distinguish twelve groups of elemental beings who work on our twelve senses. For man has twelve senses: the sense of self, the sense of life, the sense of self-movement, the sense of balance, the sense of sight, the sense of hearing, the sense of feeling (touch), the sense of smell, the sense of taste, the sense of speech, the sense of thinking, and the sense of warmth. In order to live in his ego, man represses every morning when he wakes up, that is, when he returns to his body, the beings that work on him during the night. In order to feel ourselves completely in our ego, we repress the hierarchies from our physical and etheric bodies.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Elemental Beings, Sleep, and the Spiritual Organization of Humanity","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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