26. The Secret of the Human Temperaments
GA 68d/1908-12-15/p031
·1908-12-15
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This is the case with the choleric person. When the I and its blood are active, predominantly active, and have an effect on the etheric body, then this establishes the choleric temperament, which goes too far in the other direction, which does not rush from image to image, but instead develops forces that contain the change. These forces are there with him.
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