{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-14/p030","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we consider that when we look at a person, we are not just looking at their physical and etheric bodies, but also at something that is much closer to them than their physical and etheric bodies, that they are permeated by a sum of pleasure and pain , joy and pain, drives and passions, wishes and desires, we have in it what spiritual science calls the astral body, the third part of the human being, which is much more original than the ether body and the physical body. Just as ice forms out of water, water in a different form, so the ether body and the physical body are a condensed astral body. Spiritual science shows that the etheric and physical bodies are denser astral bodies. The astral body is the cause of the etheric body and the physical body. The human being shares the physical body with all visible beings of nature, with minerals, plants and animals. The etheric body is shared with plants and animals, and the astral body with animals. But there is one thing that human beings have alone that makes them the crown of all beings. Everyone can only say a name to themselves, and that is the name 'I'. No one can pronounce the name 'I' if it is meant to refer to someone else. Everyone can only say this name to themselves. This is where the actual center of a person's nature is revealed; so that spiritual science imagines the human being as having four parts, with the 'I am' as the fourth. This is a power and entity of its own. Jean Paul describes in his biography how the thought first occurred to him: You are an I. He said: “There I looked into the most hidden sanctuary of my soul.” All religions based on spiritual wisdom have sensed this fact. The Hebrew people have also sensed it. Yahweh or Jehovah is nothing other than the “I am”. (Ex 3:14) He is the “I am” and points to the innermost core of human nature. In this ancient Hebrew people, the “I am” or Jehovah was felt to be something that expressed itself in the whole group. They applied this name to that which flowed down through the whole stream of Abraham's blood.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"35. 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Die Geisteswissenschaft zeigt, dass Äther- und physischer Leib verdichteter Astralleib sind. Der astralische Leib ist die Ursache des Ätherleibes und des physischen Leibes. Den physischen Leib hat der Mensch gemeinsam mit allen sichtbaren Wesen der Natur, mit Mineralien, Pflanzen und Tieren. Den Ätherleib hat er gemeinsam mit Pflanzen und Tieren, den Astralleib mit den Tieren. Aber eines besitzt der Mensch allein, was ihn zur Krone aller Wesen macht. Einen Namen kann jeder nur zu sich selbst sagen, das ist der Name «Ich». Keiner kann den Namen «Ich» aussprechen, wenn es einen anderen bedeuten soll. Nur zu sich selbst kann jeder diesen Namen sprechen. Hier kündet sich dem Menschen der eigentliche Mittelpunkt seiner Natur an; sodass die Geisteswissenschaft sich den Menschen viergliedrig vorstellt, als Viertes das «Ich bin». Es ist dies eine eigene Kraft und Wesenheit. Jean Paul schildert in seiner Biografie, wie ihm zuerst der Gedanke aufging: Du bist ein Ich. Er sagte: Da habe ich in das verhangenste Heiligtum meiner Seele hineingeschaut. Alle Religionsbekenntnisse, die auf Geistesweisheit gebaut sind, haben diesen Tatbestand empfunden. Empfunden hat ihn auch das hebräische Volk. Nichts anderes als das «Ich bin» ist Jahve oder Jehova. (2 Mos 3,14) Er ist das «Ich bin» und deutet auf das Innerste der Menschennatur. In diesem althebräischen Volk war das «Ich bin» oder Jehova empfunden worden als etwas, was in der ganzen Gruppe sich ausdrückte. 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