4. The Spirit, Soul, and Body of Man

Just as one sees in the individual human being, in the soul's interaction with the general spiritual life, imagination playing a part as a kind of partial sleep, so one can observe in the outer world — I will go into these things in more detail in the next lecture — how the soul plays a part in that spiritual space which one discovers as the scene of the eternal spiritual in the human being, by specializing the general eternal spiritual life into repeated earthly lives, which, however, once began and will come to an end. I will speak about this in the next lecture.