Eleventh Lecture

Only when one enters into the whole connection between the four members of the human being will one find the way to discover these relationships, which I have now indicated, between non-human substances, natural substances, and the healthy and sick human being themselves. But first we must look at how these four members of the human being — the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body, and the ego — behave very differently in the two alternating states in which human beings live in their earthly existence, in the two states of waking and sleeping. When awake, our physical organization is permeated by the etheric organization. Within this, the astral organization spreads out, filling both organizations internally, so to speak. And the whole thing is in turn permeated by the ego organization, so that if we want to imagine this schematically, we can say: We can imagine the waking human being in this diagram, with the physical and etheric organizations filling him, and also something protruding about him, the astral and ego organizations, which I indicate here with a different color. (A drawing is made.)