Eleventh Lecture

I have shown you how copper gloss affects the ego organization. I have shown you what needs to be considered in Graves' disease, so that one can say: If one is able to look at the human being on the one hand, how the physical, etheric, astral bodies and the ego are interwoven and live together, how this becomes abnormal in a state of illness, and if one also sees through what is outside in nature, then one has, for example, the following view: The ego organization is too weak in Graves' disease. Outside, I have the copper sheen. This copper sheen, brought together with the ego organization, strengthens it considerably. You see, when you consider something like this, you gain a wonderful insight into the connection between human beings and nature. The big, wonderfully effective question is answered for us: Why do human beings absorb so many substances in their food? Why do others play such a minor role? In healthy people, the latter do not play a special role, but in sick people they begin to play a special role, because it is precisely those substances that are not contained in food that have a particularly strong effect on the spiritual part of the human being; it is the minerals, plants, and even animal products that do not act in food that have a special affinity with the ego, with the astral organization.