29. The Mystery of Human Temperaments
GA 68d/1909-01-19/p022
·1909-01-19
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As the third member of the human being, we recognize the bearer of all that is pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, instinct, desire, and passion, and indeed all ideas of what we call moral ideals and so on. We call this the astral body. Do not be offended by this expression. This body could also be called the nerve body. Spiritual science sees something real in it. For spiritual science, this body of drives and desires is not an effect of the physical body, but the cause of this body; it knows that this spiritual-soul body has built up the physical body.
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