{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 98/the_elemental_kingdoms_of_nature/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus you may see how we are cared for and protected during the night by higher Beings which do not live in the mineral kingdom. The human Ego has descended as far as the mineral kingdom, and will later ascend to the plant kingdom, etc. These other Egos have remained behind the human kingdom during the successive stages of evolution; they form the hidden kingdoms, the Elemental Kingdoms, which lie behind our physical world, and which work down into it. The first Being which works in our blood during the night, has a warmth body—just as we have a physical body; it permeates the blood with warmth—and at the same time, lives upon the astral plane in its warmth body. Through this warmth-body, it belongs to the third Elemental Kingdom. These Beings, belonging to the third Elemental Kingdom, are the companions of the group-egos of the animals—they belong to the same region. And what are the capacities of these Egos? They need not have the same capacities as a human Ego, which has descended as far as the physical sense-world; but they are able nevertheless, to act as a substitute for the human Ego, from the astral plane. These Egos work down from the astral plane, in the same way that the animal group-Egos work down upon the animals. That is why we perceive them to be similar to animal group egos. This means they enliven man's astral body with impulses, desires, and passions. If we have before us an astral body—what lives within this astral body? In addition to the Ego, Beings live within it whose Ego dwells upon the astral plane. These Beings permeate the astral body just as maggots live in cheese. 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Das erste Wesen, welches nachts im Blute wirkt, hat einen Wärmeleib, gerade wie Sie einen physischen Leib haben; es durchdringt das Blut mit Wärme und lebt indes auf dem Astralplan im Wärmeleib, und durch diesen Wärmeleib gehört es dem dritten Elementarreich an. Diese Wesen des dritten Elementarreichs sind die Genossen der Gruppenseelen der Tiere; zu derselben Region gehören sie. Und diese Iche, was können sie denn eigentlich? — Sie brauchen das nicht zu können, was des Menschen Ich kann, das heruntergestiegen ist bis in die physisch-sinnliche Welt; aber sie können das Menschen-Ich ersetzen vom Astralplan aus. Diese Iche wirken vom Astralplan herein wie die tierischen Gruppen-Iche auf die Tiere, daher gewahren wir sie als ähnliche Wesen wie die tierischen Gruppen-Iche, das heißt, sie beleben den Astralleib des Menschen mit Trieben, Begierden und Leidenschaften. 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