101. Conceptual and Volitional Organism

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The I as the animating and directing spiritual-soul, which exists in the thought witness; the I is initially embedded in the external and experiences itself in the semicircle of the thought-witnessing power that is unified with the world; thus it sinks into the etheric, in which the ordinary perceptions separate out of the semicircle, and there are the receptive perceptions. The “real self” forms the body of forms, separates from it the etheric body - here a boundary - from the other side the soul and the ego-concept arise. The head: the organ of thinking; physical formation: in it the processes of perception; etheric formation: in it the processes of thinking. Now the respiratory organism: in it the processes of feeling and the limb of will impulses. Then the nutritional organism: the will impulses and the movements.

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