The Nature of the Human Being

The second member of the soul is that which encompasses memory and the lower mind. The highest member is that which contains consciousness in the true sense. Both the soul and the body consist of three members. Just as the body consists of the physical body, the etheric double body, and the soul body or astral body, so the soul consists of the sentient soul, the intellectual soul, and the conscious soul. Only those who develop the abilities that lead to true vision through spiritual scientific methods can gain a correct understanding of this. What we perceive of things from outside is attached to the sentient soul. And what we call feeling, feelings of love, feelings of hate, feelings of desire, that is, sympathy and antipathy, are attached to the second member of the soul, the intellectual soul, Kamamanas. The third member, the consciousness soul, is that which human beings can only observe at a single point. Children usually only have consciousness of the first two members of the soul. They live only in the two members of the soul that I have mentioned, the feeling soul and the intellectual soul, but they do not yet live in the consciousness soul. In this consciousness soul, the human being begins to live in the course of childhood, and then this consciousness soul becomes the self-conscious soul.