V. Illness and Death
GA 55/1906-12-13/p024
·1906-12-13
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If the astral body is to become free so that it can emerge and participate in the life and work of the “I,” it must, when its allotted task is over in the later part of life, necessarily consume the sheaths it built up. Thus, is individual life created out of the “I.”
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