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Rudolf Steiner Press Audio reads Rudolf Steiner on how a person meets regions beyond ordinary sense life. He places the physical body among forces he pictures as spreading outward from the Earth. The etheric region, in this lecture, streams inward from the wide compass of the cosmos, and the etheric body keeps to other rules than flesh does. Living thought, he says, works like a sense of touch for that flowing region, where color and tone shift in time. The astral member, as he describes it, ties a person to places past birth and past death. Reaching those places is another step. He adds that this sketch does not match his book Theosophy point for point, because that book begins from another angle. Later he binds the physical body to the Earth. After death the corpse goes back to the Earth, while the etheric body lifts into the ether. He treats these members as regions a student can learn to perceive.
Key points
- Rudolf Steiner Press Audio reads Steiner on regions beyond ordinary sense life.
- The etheric body keeps to other rules than flesh, and its region streams in from the cosmos.
- Living thought is his way of touching a region where color and tone shift in time.
- The astral member ties a person to what sits past birth and past death.
- After death the corpse goes back to the Earth and the etheric body lifts into the ether.
Short quotes
the human being's etheric body is subject to quite different laws from those of the physical body
Rudolf Steiner, Steiner on the etheric world
The etheric body, he says, keeps to other rules than the ones that govern flesh. Watch at 1:33
we here enter a further world the world of the astral
Rudolf Steiner, Steiner on the etheric world
Reaching what sits past birth and past death is, in this lecture, another region he names astral. Watch at 7:48
the physical body belongs to the Earth
Rudolf Steiner, Steiner on the etheric world
He binds the physical body to the Earth, and says the corpse goes back there after death. Watch at 23:32
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