53. The Human Character
GA 68b/1909-10-29/p012
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But we must take a closer look at the human soul if we want to fully substantiate what I have said in general. The human ego works its way up from the sentient soul to the consciousness soul and can only grasp itself in this way. In this way, it can present itself vividly in each of these elements. It can express itself in the drives and desires of the sentient soul; it can express itself in a purified way in the mind soul; and it can, further pervaded by knowledge about the world, about human thoughts about things, in the consciousness soul – each time we will find that we are confronted with a very special form of what we call character.
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