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(sense of touch, of movement, of balance, life sense and sense of warmth) and correspond macrocosmically to the signs Scorpio to Pisces. 6(8/26/1918, Dornach) (97ff.) 3550 183-05 On the secret of the threefold sun (physical, psychic = Helios, spiritual), which Plato still knew. The spiritual sun was identical with the good for him [see 211-10]. The space of the physical sun is emptier than nothingness [see 201-03, 205-02]. In the human brain are "holes" that are also emptier than empty. The psycho-spiritual human being lowers his feelers into these. Man holds together by means of his brain what lies in the holes, namely his soul-life, which is reflected when it bumps to the cerebral mass. The structure of the aura of the psycho-spiritual human being and its change after death (clarification of the psychic to the spiritual). 7(8/31/1918, Dornach) (133ff.) 3551 183-06 life after death The former living activity of speech can still be observed when new compound words are created from simple ones. E.g., Latin: ego otior (I am not idle) changes to negotior (I trade), oratio (sermon) from os (mouth) and ratio (reason). Jacob Bhme uses the technique to decompose words as means to reveal the forces that are effective behind them (in his work De signatura rerum). The human being does this after death; he splits the words to their components in which he feels more than in the whole words. If this process is continued and the components are split to sounds and the sounds are transformed to movements, eurythmy comes into being. 8(9/1/1918, Dornach) (144ff.) 3552 183-07 life after death / members after death The human being has his ego as his lowest member after death and after he has taken off his etheric and astral bodies. However the ego cannot be transformed and has the same significance for the dead as the sensory world for the living. Looking on his ego he is directed by the hierarchies: spirit-self. Forces of the hierarchies also flow in: life-spirit. These forces are fatal for life, however, by this killing something psycho-spiritual arises. The fourth member is the spirit-man which dissolves forms and soul elements that reappear transformed in the spiritual world. Example of the postmortal forces of destruction: the relationship of luxuriant vegetation of Southern Italy at the time of Pythagoras and its later shriving and dying due to the postmortal work of his and his pupils. The appearance of ahrimanic lie demons at the end of the third post-Atlantean epoch which led it to decline. 9(9/2/1918, Dornach) (162ff.) 3553 183-08 idealism / realism On the necessity to look at time in perspective as the dead does it, too. Ahriman has an effect on nature not in the present, but from the past. However, he is able to work as a present force in the human being who is connected with time and does not recognise its perspectiveness, also not subconsciously. Therefore, the human being is also subjected to the maya that nature is void of spirit. Ahriman also is a servant of the creative forces, whom they left on a former level to let him work from the past into the present. Lucifer causes ideals in the human being which are, however, powerless compared with the physical order. If the human being followed these forces, the physical earth would not attain its destination, and the human being would be led into another spiritual world he

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