{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 91/1905-06-20/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The physical body is the oldest, the etheric body the second, the astral body the youngest. The ego is formed in the present. At the beginning of our earth epoch the physical body was not a chaos, but beautifully and harmoniously built in itself, the human being could not do anything to it; from the outside in it was built by the formers, the creating entities. It was the same with the etheric body and also with the astral body. Only with the fourth stage the ego comes and works independently. It has no influence on the etheric and the physical body, but on the astral body. How? There was a time when man had no influence on the astral body, there were only urges, desires, passions. In the later stage of development he took them in hand and regulated them. As soon as the creative powers do not hold the physical body, it disappears in the general physical, likewise the etheric body [in the general world ether]. The creating gods take back these bodies. It is different with the astral body. What man works into it remains and comes back again. That is his karma. Karma or the astral worked is from man himself. What the I works into the astral body is manas. As much manas is in man as he works into his astral body. The astral body is what man has not yet worked out; manas what he has worked out. An outline, organization he works into it, which later becomes the chakrams. When man has worked through the whole astral body, he is completely filled with manas. Then he can begin to work on his etheric body as well. Likewise from within he works into what is called the budhi. Everything that he has in the astral body, he works with into the etheric body, this is his imprint. What man works into the etheric body remains. It remains with him just like his karma. When he dies, his etheric body does not dissolve in the general world ether, but as much as he has worked into it, so much remains. When he is incarnated again, he comes back into the same etheric body. Such a man is a chela.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"3. The Inner Connections of the Seven Basic Principles","site_heading":null,"date":"1905-06-20","location":null,"word_count":375,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/91/1905-06-20/p005","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Man, Nature and the Cosmos","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA091/English/SOL2025/19050620p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Zu Anfang unserer Erdepoche war der physische Körper kein Chaos, sondern schön und harmonisch in sich gebaut, der Mensch konnte nichts dazu tun; von außen herein wurde er gebaut von den Bildnern, den schaffenden Wesenheiten. Ebenso war es beim Ätherkörper und auch beim Astralkörper. Erst mit dem vierten Stadium kommt das Ich und arbeitet selbstständig. Es hat keinen Einfluss auf den Ätherund den physischen Körper, aber auf den Astralkörper. Wie? Es war eine Zeit, in der der Mensch keinen Einfluss hatte auf den Astralleib, da waren bloß Triebe, Begierden, Leidenschaften. Im späteren Entwicklungsstadium nahm er sie in die Hand und regelte sie. Sobald die schaffenden Mächte den physischen Körper nicht halten, geht er auf im allgemeinen Physischen, ebenso der Ätherkörper [im allgemeinen Weltenäther]. Die schaffenden Götter nehmen diese Leiber zurück. Anders ist es beim Astralleib. Was der Mensch da hineinarbeitet, bleibt und kommt wieder zurück. Das ist sein Karma. Karma oder das astral Erarbeitete ist vom Menschen selber. Was das Ich in den Astralleib hineinarbeitet, ist Manas. So viel Manas ist im Menschen, als er in seinen Astralleib hineinarbeitet. Der Astralkörper ist das, was der Mensch noch nicht erarbeitet hat; Manas, was er erarbeitet hat. Eine Gliederung, Organisation arbeitet er hinein, die später zu den Chakrams wird. Wenn der Mensch den ganzen Astralkörper durchgearbeitet hat, ist er ganz mit Manas erfüllt. Dann kann er anfangen, auch seinen Ätherleib zu bearbeiten. Ebenso von innen arbeitet er hinein das, was man die Budhi nennt. Alles, was er im Astralleib hat, mit dem arbeitet er in den Ätherleib hinein, dieser ist sein Abdruck. Was der Mensch in den Ätherleib hineinarbeitet, das bleibt. Es bleibt ihm ebenso wie sein Karma. Wenn er stirbt, löst sich sein Ätherleib nicht auf im allgemeinen Weltenäther, sondern so viel er hineingearbeitet hat, so viel bleibt. Wenn er wieder inkarniert wird, kommt er in denselben Ätherleib zurück. 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