42. Blood is a Very Special Fluid
GA 68b/1906-11-30/p014
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The third link of the human being arises when one seeks the vehicle for everything that is named: desire, lust, passion, pain. Not only blood and nervous systems are in man, but just as real are those phenomena. We call its carrier the “astral body”. We have it in common with the whole animal world. But what makes man the crown of all creation, what makes him rise above the animal world; what he has for himself alone, is the fourth limb, the ego body. This is what distinguishes him from all beings except himself; out of this he develops further and further upwards. We recognize this when we compare an uncultivated person with a cultured person. — example of Darwin and the man-eater. — The I, which is already in him, has not yet worked on the astral body.
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