Eleventh Lecture

You see, one can go even further in this direction. By understanding the human organization in the way I described yesterday, one can arrive at a strictly precise understanding — I can only hint at this here — of how the physical and etheric bodies are what is given to the human being in the stream of heredity, that is, what is inherited from the father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, and so on, but how that which descends from the spiritual world, sinks into the human physical and etheric bodies, and again passes through the gate of death into the spiritual world, lies in the ego organization and the astral body. That which lives and breathes in the human being as the enduring, the enduring beyond the physical body, is his actual immortality.