{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-05-30/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The beings who permeate the astral body and make it unfree are known as “Demons.” Your astral body is always interpenetrated by demons and the beings you yourselves generate through your true or false thoughts are of such a nature that they gradually grow into demons. There are good demons, generated by good thoughts; but bad thoughts, above all those that are untruthful, generate demoniacal forms of the most terrible and frightful kind and these interlard the astral body—if I may so express it. The etheric body is also permeated by beings from which man must free himself; these beings are called “Spectres”, “ghosts.” And finally, permeating the physical body there are beings known as “Phantoms.” Besides these three classes there are yet other beings, the “Spirits,” who drive the Ego hither and thither—the Ego itself also being a Spirit. In actual fact the human being generates such creatures who then determine his inner and outer destiny when he descends to incarnation. These beings work in your life in such a way that you can feel the “demons” created by your astral body, the “ghosts” or “spectres” created by your etheric body and the “phantoms” created by your physical body. All these beings are related to you and approach you when the time comes for reincarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. 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Ebenso durchsetzen den Ätherleib Wesenheiten, von denen sich der Mensch frei machen muß, das sind die Spektren oder Gespenster, und endlich gibt es solche, die den physischen Leib durchsetzen, das sind die Phantome. Außer diesen dreien gibt es noch andere Wesenheiten, die das Ich hin- und hertreiben, das sind die Geister, wie das Ich ja auch selbst Geist ist. Tatsächlich ist der Mensch der Hervorrufer von solchen Wesenheiten, die dann, wenn er auf die Erde herunterkommt, das innere und äußere Schicksal bestimmen. Dieselben beleben den Lebensgang so, daß Sie alles spüren, was Ihr Astralleib an Dämonen, Ihr Ätherleib an Gespenstern und Ihr physischer Leib an Phantomen hervorgebracht hat. 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