43. Consciousness – Life – Form

Thus, during waking hours, man is a being composed of three parts: the physical body, which perceives the physical world through the organs implanted in it from the external world and encompasses self-awareness; a body that has mobile character; its images are at the same time the archetypes of the physical body, whose clearly defined forms have arisen, as it were, through solidification from the changing images of the second body; and furthermore, both the physical and the image body are permeated by a harmony of sound, a third body. In the dream-sleep the soul withdraws from the physical body; it still remains in connection with the other two bodies, permeating the tone body and interspersing the image body with images. These latter penetrate into the physical body and communicate the shadowy images of the dream to it. In dreamless sleep the soul is connected only with the sound body; what was in the physical body during waking is now outside it and works upon it from without. The activity flowing from the soul into the physical body produces in it such a dull consciousness that it is not perceived by the person.