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	== The lotuses or chakras as spiritual organs of perception ==		== The lotuses or chakras as spiritual organs of perception ==
	[[File:Gichtel1.gif\|thumb\|[[w:Johann Georg Gichtel\|Johann Georg Gichtel]]: ''Theosophia practica'', 7 Tle., Leiden 1722, "Der gantz irdische natürliche finstere Mensch in Sternen und Elementen" (The whole earthly natural dark human being in stars and elements).		[[File:Gichtel1.gif\|thumb\|150px\|[[w:Johann Georg Gichtel\|Johann Georg Gichtel]]: ''Theosophia practica'', 7 Tle., Leiden 1722, "Der gantz irdische natürliche finstere Mensch in Sternen und Elementen" (The whole earthly natural dark human being in stars and elements).
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	[[File:Gichtel reborn man.jpg\|thumb\|[[w:Johann Georg Gichtel\|Johann Georg Gichtel]]: ''Theosophia Practica'', Berlin/Leipzig 1736, "Der wiedergeborene Mensch In seiner Geburt in Christo, im Herzen, Welcher die Schlange ganz zermalmet" (''The reborn man in his birth in Christo, in the heart, which crushes the snake completely'').]]		[[File:Gichtel reborn man.jpg\|thumb\|150px\|[[w:Johann Georg Gichtel\|Johann Georg Gichtel]]: ''Theosophia Practica'', Berlin/Leipzig 1736, "Der wiedergeborene Mensch In seiner Geburt in Christo, im Herzen, Welcher die Schlange ganz zermalmet" (''The reborn man in his birth in Christo, in the heart, which crushes the snake completely'').]]
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	You see now how on earth the masculine and feminine would not be in humanity if Lucifer and Ahriman had not worked. I would like to know how woman could escape from Lucifer, how man could escape from Ahriman! The sermon: one should escape them, these powers - I have often emphasised it - is quite foolish, for they belong to that which lives in evolution, evolution having already been what it is.\|272\|184f}}		You see now how on earth the masculine and feminine would not be in humanity if Lucifer and Ahriman had not worked. I would like to know how woman could escape from Lucifer, how man could escape from Ahriman! The sermon: one should escape them, these powers - I have often emphasised it - is quite foolish, for they belong to that which lives in evolution, evolution having already been what it is.\|272\|184f}}

			== The aura of the earth ==
			{{Main\|Earth aura}}

			The [[aura of the earth]] glows bluish-purple in the east and burns and sprays reddish-yellow in the west. In between lies a green belt. The [[Mystery of Golgotha]] has brought about a significant change. In the bluish eastern half, exactly where [[Jerusalem]] lies, a gold star shone with the death of [[Christ]] on the cross, from which the formation of the [[New Jerusalem]] emanates.

			{{GZ\|We get a picture of the earth when we imagine a sphere floating in the space of the world, glowing bluish-violet on one side, burning reddish-yellow on the other, spraying; and between them is a green belt. Figurative ideas gradually carry the human being over into the spiritual world. That is what matters. One is naturally obliged to present such pictorial ideas when one speaks seriously of the spiritual worlds, and it is further necessary that it should not only be believed that such pictorial ideas are some kind of fictions, but one is dependent on something being made of them. - Let us consider again: the bluish-violet glowing Easter earth, the reddish-yellow spraying West earth. But there are still various differentiations that come into it. When the dead man looks at certain points in our present cycle of time, he sees something of a golden structure, of a golden crystal structure, in the midst of the bluish-purple, which is signed here on earth by the fact that it is Palestine, that it is Jerusalem, and which then comes to life: that is Jerusalem, seen from the spirit! That is what also plays into the Apocalypse - by speaking of imaginations - as "heavenly Jerusalem". These are not imaginary things, they are things that can be seen. Spiritually, it was the same with the Mystery of Golgotha as one can experience in physical observation, when today the astronomer points his telescope out into the space of the world and then looks at what astonishes him, such as the shining of stars. Spiritually, seen from the universe, the event of Golgotha was the shining of a gold star in the blue earth aura of the eastern half of the earth. There you have the imagination for what I developed at the end the day before yesterday. It is really a question of procuring through such imaginations ideas of the universe, which place the human soul in the spirit of this universe.\|181\|174f}}

			{{GZ\|Where does the blue-violet on one side of the earth aura come from? When one sees this side of the earth's sphere, the physical of the earth, seen from the outside, disappears; it is more the aura of light that becomes transparent, and the dark of the earth disappears. That is what the blue does, what looks through. You can explain this phenomenon from Goethe's theory of colours. But because the interior of the earth sprays up from the western half, so it sprays up that what I described the day before yesterday is true: In America, man is determined by the subterranean, by what is under the earth, therefore the interior of the earth also radiates and sprays out into the universe like a reddish-yellow gleam, like a reddish-yellow spraying fire.\|181\|176}}

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	The '''aura''' ({{Greek\|αύρα}} ''áura'' "breath, breeze, morning breeze"<ref>In [[w:Greek mythology\|Greek mythology]], [[w:Aura (mythology)\|aura]] is the goddess of the morning breeze.</ref>; {{HeS\|אוֹרָה}} ''aura''; related to {{He\|אוֹר}} ''or'' resp. ''aur'' "[[light]]") of the [[human being]] gives a picture of his supersensible [[members]] as seen by the [[clairvoyant]]. The supersensible members are the [[etheric body]], the [[astral body]] and the [[I]]. Accordingly, one can distinguish an ether aura, an astral aura and an I-aura, whereby the astral aura is usually the most prominent. In the visual arts, the full-body aura is depicted as a mandorla or ~~aureole~~, the head aura as a halo. Originally, in ancient cultures, the forms and colours of the robes were also designed as a sensually visible expression of the human aura.		The '''aura''' ({{Greek\|αύρα}} ''áura'' "breath, breeze, morning breeze"<ref>In [[w:Greek mythology\|Greek mythology]], [[w:Aura (mythology)\|aura]] is the goddess of the morning breeze.</ref>; {{HeS\|אוֹרָה}} ''aura''; related to {{He\|אוֹר}} ''or'' resp. ''aur'' "[[light]]") of the [[human being]] gives a picture of his supersensible [[members]] as seen by the [[clairvoyant]]. The supersensible members are the [[etheric body]], the [[astral body]] and the [[I]]. Accordingly, one can distinguish an [[Aura#Ether aura\|ether aura]], an [[Aura#Astral aura\|astral aura]] and an [[Aura#I-aura\|I-aura]], whereby the astral aura is usually the most prominent. In the visual arts, the full-body aura is depicted as a [[mandorla]] or [[aureola]], the [[head aura]] as a [[halo]]. Originally, in ancient cultures, the forms and colours of the robes were also designed as a sensually visible expression of the human aura.

	[[File:GA93a 075 en.gif\|thumb\|Auric egg, drawing from {{G\|93a\|75}}]]		[[File:GA93a 075 en.gif\|thumb\|Auric egg, drawing from {{G\|93a\|75}}]]

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			The '''aura''' ({{Greek\|αύρα}} ''áura'' "breath, breeze, morning breeze"<ref>In [[w:Greek mythology\|Greek mythology]], [[w:Aura (mythology)\|aura]] is the goddess of the morning breeze.</ref>; {{HeS\|אוֹרָה}} ''aura''; related to {{He\|אוֹר}} ''or'' resp. ''aur'' "[[light]]") of the [[human being]] gives a picture of his supersensible [[members]] as seen by the [[clairvoyant]]. The supersensible members are the [[etheric body]], the [[astral body]] and the [[I]]. Accordingly, one can distinguish an ether aura, an astral aura and an I-aura, whereby the astral aura is usually the most prominent. In the visual arts, the full-body aura is depicted as a mandorla or aureole, the head aura as a halo. Originally, in ancient cultures, the forms and colours of the robes were also designed as a sensually visible expression of the human aura.

	[[File:GA93a 075 en.gif\|thumb\|Auric egg, drawing from {{G\|93a\|75}}]]		[[File:GA93a 075 en.gif\|thumb\|Auric egg, drawing from {{G\|93a\|75}}]]

	The '''aura''' ({{Greek\|αύρα}} ''áura'' "breath, breeze, morning breeze"<ref>In [[w:Greek mythology\|Greek mythology]], [[w:Aura (mythology)\|aura]] is the goddess of the morning breeze.</ref>; {{HeS\|אוֹרָה}} ''aura''; related to {{He\|אוֹר}} ''or'' resp. ''aur'' "[[light]]") of the [[human being]] gives a picture of his supersensible [[members]] as seen by the [[clairvoyant]]. The supersensible members are the [[etheric body]], the [[astral body]] and the [[I]]. Accordingly, one can distinguish an ether aura, an astral aura and an I-aura, whereby the astral aura is usually the most prominent. In the visual arts, the full-body aura is depicted as a mandorla or aureole, the head aura as a halo. Originally, in ancient cultures, the forms and colours of the robes were also designed as a sensually visible expression of the human aura.

	== The perception of the aura ==		== The perception of the aura ==

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	{{GZ\|The clairvoyant sees in the child how, in the very first days and weeks of its development, it is surrounded by powerful forces belonging to the second part of the human being, the etheric body. We know that in the human being of today the etheric body is about the same size as the physical body, but in the child it protrudes far beyond the physical body, especially at the head, and there this working of the forces, which looks like a play of light to the clairvoyant, is particularly vivid. It is wonderful to see how certain forces shoot up from the body from below, how it then radiates down from above, from the nape of the neck, from all sides, and where the hair whirls, radiates into a lively play of forces, becomes an astral-etheric play of light in the etheric body of the child, which then loses itself more and more in time. In this play of light lie the forces which create those physical connecting links in the brain. The brain is only formed in time, when the child is already born, and that out of a spiritual substance. You can see forty to fifty currents of force working together there - the light body is composed of them - a wonderful spectacle when you observe the child like this in the first weeks of life. Gradually this body of light penetrates into the child's brain and is then inside. First the etheric body of the child was outside, it surrounded the head, was quite primitive; it was surrounded by a light body from which it gathered forces, and now it gradually enters the child's head, sits there inside as the complicated etheric organism. That is the wonderful thing about development, that everything physical is constructed out of the spiritual world, is worked out of the spiritual, which we then absorb ourselves. The soul has first worked out the dwelling in which it then dwells.\|109\|168f}}		{{GZ\|The clairvoyant sees in the child how, in the very first days and weeks of its development, it is surrounded by powerful forces belonging to the second part of the human being, the etheric body. We know that in the human being of today the etheric body is about the same size as the physical body, but in the child it protrudes far beyond the physical body, especially at the head, and there this working of the forces, which looks like a play of light to the clairvoyant, is particularly vivid. It is wonderful to see how certain forces shoot up from the body from below, how it then radiates down from above, from the nape of the neck, from all sides, and where the hair whirls, radiates into a lively play of forces, becomes an astral-etheric play of light in the etheric body of the child, which then loses itself more and more in time. In this play of light lie the forces which create those physical connecting links in the brain. The brain is only formed in time, when the child is already born, and that out of a spiritual substance. You can see forty to fifty currents of force working together there - the light body is composed of them - a wonderful spectacle when you observe the child like this in the first weeks of life. Gradually this body of light penetrates into the child's brain and is then inside. First the etheric body of the child was outside, it surrounded the head, was quite primitive; it was surrounded by a light body from which it gathered forces, and now it gradually enters the child's head, sits there inside as the complicated etheric organism. That is the wonderful thing about development, that everything physical is constructed out of the spiritual world, is worked out of the spiritual, which we then absorb ourselves. The soul has first worked out the dwelling in which it then dwells.\|109\|168f}}

			== The aura of male and female ==

			In the aura of the male and female organism, [[Lucifer]] and [[Ahriman]] work in different ways. These differences are not caused by the [[I]] and the [[soul]], but by the different construction of the [[physical body\|physical]]-[[etheric body]].

			=== Female ===

			{{GZ\|So let us take the female organism again. It radiates, as it were, a Luciferic aura. But by radiating it, it pushes back the life or sound ether, so that a kind of ahrimanic aura is formed around the female organism, so that then the female organism has the luciferic aura in the centre, and the ahrimanic aura further out. But this female organism can now, if it is not so inactive that it stops at seeing its own aura, develop further. And this is precisely what matters, that one should not remain in an unhealthy way with the first-formed imaginations, but that one should use all one's will powerfully in order to penetrate through these imaginations. For in the end one must go so far that one's own aura does not appear to one, but that what appears is reflected back, as it were, from a mirror plate, which is now an ahrimanic aura. One must not look into one's own aura, but one must have reflected back from the outer aura that which is in one's own aura. In this way, you see, the female organism receives the Luciferic reflected back from the Ahrimanic and is thereby neutralised, thereby brought into balance. Thus it is neither ahrimanic nor luciferic, but it is defeminised, it becomes generally human. Really, it becomes generally human.

			I only ask you to feel how man really, by ascending into the spiritual, by escaping either the Luciferic or the Ahrimanic power of his own aura, does not look into the Luciferic or the Ahrimanic, but allows the one to be reflected and thereby receives it back, asexually, without it being male or female. The feminine is neutralised to the masculine in the ahrimanic, the masculine is neutralised to the feminine in the luciferic. For just as the feminine-Luciferic aura surrounds itself with the Ahrimanic aura, so the masculine-Ahrimanic aura surrounds itself with the Luciferic aura, and there radiates back just as much that which one has within oneself as in the feminine. One sees it as a mirror image.\|272\|187f}}

			=== Male ===

			{{GZ\|If we look at the male organism, Ahriman has woven his power into his aura, but now into the sound and life ether. And as with the woman it is preferably the warmth ether, so with the man it is preferably the life ether. In woman it is preferably the warmth ether in which Lucifer works, and in man the life ether in which Ahriman works. When the man comes out of his consciousness, when the cohesion which expresses itself in him as I-consciousness is damped down, when a kind of passive state sets in with the man, then it is so that one can again see how the aura around him asserts itself, the aura in which Ahriman has his power within.

			But it is now an aura which contains mainly life ether and sound ether. There is vibrating sound in it, so that one does not really see this aura of the man so directly imaginatively. It is not an imaginative aura, but something of vibrating spiritual sound that surrounds the man. All this has to do with the form, not with the soul of course; it has to do with the man in so far as he is physical. So that the one who looks at this figure from the outside can see: the man radiates - one can now say - intuitions. These are the same intuitions from which his form was actually formed, through which he is there as a man in the world. There is a living, vibrating sound all around you. Therefore there is another danger in the man when his consciousness is damped down to passivity, the danger of only hearing this own aura, of hearing it inwardly. The man must take special care not to let himself go when he hears his own aura mentally, for then he hears the Ahriman who rules in him. For he must be there.

			You see now how on earth the masculine and feminine would not be in humanity if Lucifer and Ahriman had not worked. I would like to know how woman could escape from Lucifer, how man could escape from Ahriman! The sermon: one should escape them, these powers - I have often emphasised it - is quite foolish, for they belong to that which lives in evolution, evolution having already been what it is.\|272\|184f}}

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	{{GZ\|So we have three forces that act on the human being during the state of sleep. These three forces have had very specific names in spiritual science since ancient times, and I ask you now not to think of these names as anything other than what has just been described. You know these names, of course, but I ask you to think of nothing else at all than names given to the respective forces which act at night upon these three parts of the human soul. For in fact, if you were to go back to ancient times, these three names were given to these three forces, and if they are now used for other things, they are not original but borrowed. Originally these names were given to these three forces. That force which acts on the sentient soul when it falls asleep and wakes up was given a name which in ancient languages would correspond to the word Mars. (During the following explanations, the names Mars, Jupiter, etc., will be added to the drawing on page 69; see drawing on page 75.) Mars is nothing other than a name for that power which acts on the sentient soul, which in the evening drives man out of his bodily shells and in the morning sends him in again. That power which acts on the intellectual or mind soul, after falling asleep and before waking up, it is that power which drives the world of dreams into the intellectual or mind soul - this power bears the name which would coincide with the word Jupiter. And that force which in special circumstances would make man a night-walker, which therefore acts on man's consciousness soul during the state of sleep, bears the name Saturn in the sense of the old spiritual science. So that one is speaking in the sense of spiritual science when one would say that Mars has put man to sleep, Jupiter has sent dreams into man's sleep, and the dark sinister Saturn is the cause which rouses man, who cannot resist its influences, in his sleep and drives him to unconscious actions.\|119\|69f}}		{{GZ\|So we have three forces that act on the human being during the state of sleep. These three forces have had very specific names in spiritual science since ancient times, and I ask you now not to think of these names as anything other than what has just been described. You know these names, of course, but I ask you to think of nothing else at all than names given to the respective forces which act at night upon these three parts of the human soul. For in fact, if you were to go back to ancient times, these three names were given to these three forces, and if they are now used for other things, they are not original but borrowed. Originally these names were given to these three forces. That force which acts on the sentient soul when it falls asleep and wakes up was given a name which in ancient languages would correspond to the word Mars. (During the following explanations, the names Mars, Jupiter, etc., will be added to the drawing on page 69; see drawing on page 75.) Mars is nothing other than a name for that power which acts on the sentient soul, which in the evening drives man out of his bodily shells and in the morning sends him in again. That power which acts on the intellectual or mind soul, after falling asleep and before waking up, it is that power which drives the world of dreams into the intellectual or mind soul - this power bears the name which would coincide with the word Jupiter. And that force which in special circumstances would make man a night-walker, which therefore acts on man's consciousness soul during the state of sleep, bears the name Saturn in the sense of the old spiritual science. So that one is speaking in the sense of spiritual science when one would say that Mars has put man to sleep, Jupiter has sent dreams into man's sleep, and the dark sinister Saturn is the cause which rouses man, who cannot resist its influences, in his sleep and drives him to unconscious actions.\|119\|69f}}

	{{GZ\|Thus we have traced the human soul-life through the sleeping and waking states. We have found that it is divided into three separate parts, that it is subject to three different influences. When during the night man is devoted to that world which we must call the spiritual world, then he is devoted to the forces which in spiritual science are called the forces of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When, during the day awakening, he unfolds his soul life through the sentient soul, through the intellectual or mind soul and through the consciousness soul, then he is devoted to those forces which in spiritual science are called the forces of Venus, Mercury and the Moon. Thus we have designated man's daily path, the path which he travels within twenty-four hours.\|119\|74f}}		{{GZ\|Thus we have traced the human soul-life through the sleeping and waking states. We have found that it is divided into three separate parts, that it is subject to three different influences. When during the night man is devoted to that world which we must call the spiritual world, then he is devoted to the forces which in spiritual science are called the forces of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When, during the day awakening, he unfolds his soul life through the sentient soul, through the intellectual or mind soul and through the consciousness soul, then he is devoted to those forces which in spiritual science are called the forces of Venus, Mercury and the Moon. Thus we have designated man's daily path, the path which he travels within twenty-four hours.\|119\|74f}}

			== The aura of the child ==

			{{GZ\|While what we call the "aura of the child" hovers around the child in the first years of life like a wonderful, human-superhuman power - hovers around in such a way that this childish aura, the actual higher part of the human being, has its continuation everywhere into the spiritual world - at that point in time, up to which the human being can remember back, this aura penetrates more into the inner being of the human being. The human being can, up to this point in time, feel himself as a coherent I, because that which was formerly connected with the higher worlds is then drawn into his I. From then on, the consciousness of the human being is more than the spiritual world. From then on, consciousness everywhere places itself in connection with the outer world.\|15\|15}}

			{{GZ\|The clairvoyant sees in the child how, in the very first days and weeks of its development, it is surrounded by powerful forces belonging to the second part of the human being, the etheric body. We know that in the human being of today the etheric body is about the same size as the physical body, but in the child it protrudes far beyond the physical body, especially at the head, and there this working of the forces, which looks like a play of light to the clairvoyant, is particularly vivid. It is wonderful to see how certain forces shoot up from the body from below, how it then radiates down from above, from the nape of the neck, from all sides, and where the hair whirls, radiates into a lively play of forces, becomes an astral-etheric play of light in the etheric body of the child, which then loses itself more and more in time. In this play of light lie the forces which create those physical connecting links in the brain. The brain is only formed in time, when the child is already born, and that out of a spiritual substance. You can see forty to fifty currents of force working together there - the light body is composed of them - a wonderful spectacle when you observe the child like this in the first weeks of life. Gradually this body of light penetrates into the child's brain and is then inside. First the etheric body of the child was outside, it surrounded the head, was quite primitive; it was surrounded by a light body from which it gathered forces, and now it gradually enters the child's head, sits there inside as the complicated etheric organism. That is the wonderful thing about development, that everything physical is constructed out of the spiritual world, is worked out of the spiritual, which we then absorb ourselves. The soul has first worked out the dwelling in which it then dwells.\|109\|168f}}

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	These three influences have always been distinguished from one another in the research of spiritual science, and we must assume three areas within the soul life of man, which are such that one area can be more subject to one influence, the second area more to the second, and the third more to the third. The soul of man is therefore a threefold being, for it can be subject to three different influences. Now that part of the human soul which is subject to the first influence characterised, which in general drives the human soul out of the body shells, is called in spiritual science the sentient soul. That part of the soul on which the influence is exerted which has been characterised in the second place, which forces the dream-images into the human soul-life during the night, is called the intellectual or mental soul. And that part of the human soul which, for most people, does not reveal its peculiar nature during sleep, because the other two influences predominate, is called the consciousness soul. Thus we have to distinguish between three influences during the sleeping time of man, and the three members of the soul-life which are subject to these three influences, we distinguish as the sentient soul, the intellectual or mind soul, and the consciousness soul. When, therefore, man is put into dreamless, quiet sleep by the one power we have described, an influence is exerted on his sentient soul out of the world into which he enters. When a man's sleep is interspersed with the images of the dream world, then an influence is exerted on his intellectual or mind soul, and when he even begins to speak in the night or to act out of sleep, then an influence is exerted on his consciousness soul.\|119\|64ff}}		These three influences have always been distinguished from one another in the research of spiritual science, and we must assume three areas within the soul life of man, which are such that one area can be more subject to one influence, the second area more to the second, and the third more to the third. The soul of man is therefore a threefold being, for it can be subject to three different influences. Now that part of the human soul which is subject to the first influence characterised, which in general drives the human soul out of the body shells, is called in spiritual science the sentient soul. That part of the soul on which the influence is exerted which has been characterised in the second place, which forces the dream-images into the human soul-life during the night, is called the intellectual or mental soul. And that part of the human soul which, for most people, does not reveal its peculiar nature during sleep, because the other two influences predominate, is called the consciousness soul. Thus we have to distinguish between three influences during the sleeping time of man, and the three members of the soul-life which are subject to these three influences, we distinguish as the sentient soul, the intellectual or mind soul, and the consciousness soul. When, therefore, man is put into dreamless, quiet sleep by the one power we have described, an influence is exerted on his sentient soul out of the world into which he enters. When a man's sleep is interspersed with the images of the dream world, then an influence is exerted on his intellectual or mind soul, and when he even begins to speak in the night or to act out of sleep, then an influence is exerted on his consciousness soul.\|119\|64ff}}

			[[File:GA119 075 en.gif\|right\|400px\|Drawing from GA 119, p. 75]]
			{{GZ\|So we have three forces that act on the human being during the state of sleep. These three forces have had very specific names in spiritual science since ancient times, and I ask you now not to think of these names as anything other than what has just been described. You know these names, of course, but I ask you to think of nothing else at all than names given to the respective forces which act at night upon these three parts of the human soul. For in fact, if you were to go back to ancient times, these three names were given to these three forces, and if they are now used for other things, they are not original but borrowed. Originally these names were given to these three forces. That force which acts on the sentient soul when it falls asleep and wakes up was given a name which in ancient languages would correspond to the word Mars. (During the following explanations, the names Mars, Jupiter, etc., will be added to the drawing on page 69; see drawing on page 75.) Mars is nothing other than a name for that power which acts on the sentient soul, which in the evening drives man out of his bodily shells and in the morning sends him in again. That power which acts on the intellectual or mind soul, after falling asleep and before waking up, it is that power which drives the world of dreams into the intellectual or mind soul - this power bears the name which would coincide with the word Jupiter. And that force which in special circumstances would make man a night-walker, which therefore acts on man's consciousness soul during the state of sleep, bears the name Saturn in the sense of the old spiritual science. So that one is speaking in the sense of spiritual science when one would say that Mars has put man to sleep, Jupiter has sent dreams into man's sleep, and the dark sinister Saturn is the cause which rouses man, who cannot resist its influences, in his sleep and drives him to unconscious actions.\|119\|69f}}

			{{GZ\|Thus we have traced the human soul-life through the sleeping and waking states. We have found that it is divided into three separate parts, that it is subject to three different influences. When during the night man is devoted to that world which we must call the spiritual world, then he is devoted to the forces which in spiritual science are called the forces of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When, during the day awakening, he unfolds his soul life through the sentient soul, through the intellectual or mind soul and through the consciousness soul, then he is devoted to those forces which in spiritual science are called the forces of Venus, Mercury and the Moon. Thus we have designated man's daily path, the path which he travels within twenty-four hours.\|119\|74f}}

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	Now the understanding of this fact also gives us, so to speak, the best understanding of certain messages which man receives when he follows the various occult documents or documents based on occultism. You have always heard the characteristic, as I have just said, which is quite justified from a certain point of view, that sleep consists in man leaving his physical body and etheric body in bed and going out with his astral body and I; which is therefore quite correct in a certain sense for the upper parts of the I and astral aura, namely for the I-aura. But if you follow Oriental writings, you will not find this characteristic, but just the opposite. You will find there characterized that during the state of sleep that which otherwise lives in the human consciousness is drawn deeper into the body. So you find there the reverse characteristic of sleep. And especially in certain Vedanta writings you can find the thing characterized in such a way that this, of which we say that it draws itself out of the physical body and etheric body, sinks itself deeper into the physical and etheric corporeality during sleep, that what otherwise causes seeing draws itself into deeper parts of the eye, so that seeing can no longer come about. Why is this characterized in this way in Oriental writings? It is because the Oriental still stands on a different standpoint. Through his kind of clairvoyance he sees more what is going on inside the human being, what is happening inside. He pays less attention to the process of the upper aura going out and more to the fact of being permeated during sleep with the lower aura. Therefore, from his point of view, he is naturally right.\|141\|77ff}}		Now the understanding of this fact also gives us, so to speak, the best understanding of certain messages which man receives when he follows the various occult documents or documents based on occultism. You have always heard the characteristic, as I have just said, which is quite justified from a certain point of view, that sleep consists in man leaving his physical body and etheric body in bed and going out with his astral body and I; which is therefore quite correct in a certain sense for the upper parts of the I and astral aura, namely for the I-aura. But if you follow Oriental writings, you will not find this characteristic, but just the opposite. You will find there characterized that during the state of sleep that which otherwise lives in the human consciousness is drawn deeper into the body. So you find there the reverse characteristic of sleep. And especially in certain Vedanta writings you can find the thing characterized in such a way that this, of which we say that it draws itself out of the physical body and etheric body, sinks itself deeper into the physical and etheric corporeality during sleep, that what otherwise causes seeing draws itself into deeper parts of the eye, so that seeing can no longer come about. Why is this characterized in this way in Oriental writings? It is because the Oriental still stands on a different standpoint. Through his kind of clairvoyance he sees more what is going on inside the human being, what is happening inside. He pays less attention to the process of the upper aura going out and more to the fact of being permeated during sleep with the lower aura. Therefore, from his point of view, he is naturally right.\|141\|77ff}}

			=== Planetary influences on the three soul members during waking and sleeping ===

			During [[dreamless sleep]] the [[sentient soul]] is under the predominant influence of the [[Mars sphere]]. In [[dream]]s, the [[Jupiter sphere]] acts in the [[intellectual or mind soul]]. If the influence of the [[Saturn sphere]] on the [[consciousness soul]] predominates, the person becomes a [[sleepwalker]].

			{{GZ\|Thus, for the sleep state, we can state three clearly distinguishable influences on the inner man, which is separated from the outer during sleep. These three influences to which man is exposed during sleep are always there, and spiritual science can really investigate by means which we shall yet learn in the course of the lectures, that they are present in every man. But in the vast majority of people the first influence is so predominant that they spend the greater part of their sleeping time in dreamless, peaceful sleep. Then for almost all people the second influence occurs from time to time, that the dream state intrudes into their sleep consciousness. But these two states have such a strong effect on most people that speaking and acting out of sleep is a rarity. But the third influence, which occurs with the nightwalker, is also present with every human being. But in the case of the sleepwalker the third influence is so strong that it drowns out the other two and gains dominance over the two weaker influences, while in other people the other two influences are so strong that the third influence does not come into play at all and does not drive the person to any actions. But it is present in every human being. Every human being is predisposed to be subject to these three influences.

			These three influences have always been distinguished from one another in the research of spiritual science, and we must assume three areas within the soul life of man, which are such that one area can be more subject to one influence, the second area more to the second, and the third more to the third. The soul of man is therefore a threefold being, for it can be subject to three different influences. Now that part of the human soul which is subject to the first influence characterised, which in general drives the human soul out of the body shells, is called in spiritual science the sentient soul. That part of the soul on which the influence is exerted which has been characterised in the second place, which forces the dream-images into the human soul-life during the night, is called the intellectual or mental soul. And that part of the human soul which, for most people, does not reveal its peculiar nature during sleep, because the other two influences predominate, is called the consciousness soul. Thus we have to distinguish between three influences during the sleeping time of man, and the three members of the soul-life which are subject to these three influences, we distinguish as the sentient soul, the intellectual or mind soul, and the consciousness soul. When, therefore, man is put into dreamless, quiet sleep by the one power we have described, an influence is exerted on his sentient soul out of the world into which he enters. When a man's sleep is interspersed with the images of the dream world, then an influence is exerted on his intellectual or mind soul, and when he even begins to speak in the night or to act out of sleep, then an influence is exerted on his consciousness soul.\|119\|64ff}}

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	With the [[Atlantian]] the lotuses were still movable, with the [[Lemurian]] even very violently moved, but turned counterclockwise. This is also the case with today's mediums with atavistic clairvoyance. The clairvoyance of the mediums is however an unconscious one which is not subject to any thought control {{GZ\|\|94\|173}}.		With the [[Atlantian]] the lotuses were still movable, with the [[Lemurian]] even very violently moved, but turned counterclockwise. This is also the case with today's mediums with atavistic clairvoyance. The clairvoyance of the mediums is however an unconscious one which is not subject to any thought control {{GZ\|\|94\|173}}.

			== The aura in the waking and sleeping state ==

			In the state of [[sleep]], the [[I]] and the [[astral body]] are partially lifted out of the living [[physical body]]. The clairvoyant impression of the human aura also changes. The shape and structure of the aura depends very much on the spiritual development of the human being.

			{{GZ\|In undeveloped people the aura is formed cloud-like. When the human being sleeps, it hovers above the physical body, because the astral body separates from the physical body. It is then visible like two spirals curled into each other, like rings of mist. In this way they intertwine to disappear in further spirals into the indefinite. Such two intertwined rings form the aura in the sleeping person. When man undergoes occult development, the aura becomes more and more definite. The ends of the spirals, which go into the distance, disappear, and the two intertwined spiral formations will organize themselves. More and more they will become a definite, closed structure, and then they will show certain organs which appear in this aura, and which are called chakras. These are the sense organs of the soul.\|53\|199}}

			{{GZ\|When this astral body is out of the physical and etheric body, then connections begin to form, as it were currents from this astral body to the cosmic environment. When you return in the morning from the sleeping state to the waking one, you have, as it were, drawn the strengthening forces from the whole cosmos during the sleeping state. In a certain respect your astral body during the night was incorporated by its currents into the whole surrounding cosmos. It was in connection with all the planetary beings belonging to our earth. It sent its currents to Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and so on, and in these planetary beings are the strengthening forces that send into the astral body what we need in order to be able to continue the waking state when we return to the physical and etheric body. As it were, our astral body is poured out and enlarged to a world existence during the night. The clairvoyant consciousness sees the astral body leaving the physical body in a certain way when falling asleep. Of course, this is an imprecise expression. Like in a spiral, the astral body winds its way out of the physical body, like a spiral cloud it floats. But what you see there is only the beginning of the currents that join out of this astral body. They actually go out into the world space and get forces, imbue themselves with the forces of the planets. And if someone wanted to tell you that the astral body is what one sees with gross clairvoyance as a cloud hovering, as it were, near the physical body, then he is not telling you the truth at all, for this astral body is poured out during the night over our whole solar system. It is during the sleeping state, so to speak, in connection with the planetary beings. That is why we speak of an "astral" body. All other explanations for the expression astral body, which was coined in the Middle Ages, are not correct. We speak of astral body for the reason that in the sleeping state of man it is in certain inner connection with the stars, with the astral world, because it rests in it, because it absorbs its forces.\|122\|146f}}

			{{GZ\|So, if we consider the ordinary waking state of man, we would draw the auric context of man approximately in the following way:

			[[File:GA141_077.gif\|center\|200px\|Drawing from GA 141, p. 77]]

			the physical body the sharper line; within the dotted line the etheric body; what is more densely hatched is the astral body; and the I-aura would have to be drawn approximately in such a way that it penetrates the whole man, but I draw it as rays, which surround him, without actual boundaries, radiate upward and downward. Next to it I will draw the difference in the auric composition in the sleeping state of a man who would sleep about the midnight hour, respectively the auric picture of him (see drawing): physical body and etheric body as in the first drawing; the dark shaded area would be the astral body;

			[[File:GA141_078.gif\|center\|200px\|Drawing from GA 141, p. 78]]

			Its downward indeterminate continuation would stand out, but would still remain in a vertical position. I would then have to draw the I-aura radially in the way you see it here. In the region of the neck the I-aura is interrupted and begins again only in the region of the head, but in such a way that it is directed radially outward and goes upward into the indefinite, when the human being is in the horizontal position, but is directed upward, from the head upward. So that essentially the sight of the aura of the sleeping man would be such that the astral body is essentially condensed and dark - in the region shaded dark in the drawing -, in the upper parts it is thinner than during the day. In the neck area the I-aura is interrupted, below it is again radiant and then continues into the indefinite.

			The essential thing is that in such a state of sleep what can be called the auric image of the I is in fact divided into two parts. During the waking state the I-aura hangs together like an oval, during such a state of sleep it separates in the middle, and during sleep it consists of two pieces, one of which is turned downward by a kind of gravity and spreads out downward, so that one has to do not with a closing but with a downward spreading I-aura. This part of the I-aura appears to the clairvoyant consciousness as an essentially very dark part of the aura, which has dark threads, but is tinged with strong, for example dark reddish nuances. What separates upward from it is again in such a way that it runs narrowly from the head area, but then spreads out into the indefinite, so to speak spreads out upward into the starry world. The astral aura is not divided in the same way in the middle, so that one cannot speak of a real division of it, while the I-aura is divided, at least for the sight.

			Thus we have also in this occult sight a kind of pictorial expression of the fact that man goes out into the world-space with that which pervades him as I-forces during the day-waking state, in order to gain connection with the star-world, in order to suck in the forces from the star-world, so to speak.

			Now that part of the I-aura which constricts downward and becomes dark, more or less like opaque, while that which goes upward is bright and shining, shining in bright light, is at the same time that which is most exposed to the influence of the ahrimanic forces. The adjacent part of the astral aura is the most exposed to the Luciferic forces. We can therefore say: The characteristic which is rightly given from a certain point of view, that the I and the astral body leave man, is absolutely true for the upper parts of the I and astral aura. For those parts of the I and astral aura which correspond more to the lower parts, especially to the lower parts of the trunk of the human form, it is not actually true; but for these parts it is even the case that during sleep the aura of the I and of the astral body are more inward, are more connected with the physical body and the etheric body, than is the case in the waking state, that they are more dense, more compact towards the bottom. For one can also see how, on waking, that which I have so strongly drawn below emerges again from the lower parts of the human being. Just as the upper part goes out when falling asleep, so the lower part of the ego and astral aura goes out in a certain way when waking up, and only a kind of piece of these two auras remains inside, as I have drawn it in the first figure.

			Now it is just so extremely important to know that by the evolution of our earth, by all the forces which have played a part in it and which you can see from the "Occult Science in Outline", the arrangement has been made that the human being does not take part in this more active working of the lower aura during sleep, that is, does not take part in this working as a witness. For from these parts of the lower I-aura and the lower astral aura are stimulated the vitalizing forces which man needs in order that what is worn out during the waking state may be repaired. The restorative forces must emanate from these parts of the aura. That they act upward and restore the whole man, depends then on the fact that the part of the aura going out upward develops forces of attraction, which it sucks in from the starry world, and can thereby attract the forces coming from below, so that they have a regenerating effect on man. This is the objective process.

			Now the understanding of this fact also gives us, so to speak, the best understanding of certain messages which man receives when he follows the various occult documents or documents based on occultism. You have always heard the characteristic, as I have just said, which is quite justified from a certain point of view, that sleep consists in man leaving his physical body and etheric body in bed and going out with his astral body and I; which is therefore quite correct in a certain sense for the upper parts of the I and astral aura, namely for the I-aura. But if you follow Oriental writings, you will not find this characteristic, but just the opposite. You will find there characterized that during the state of sleep that which otherwise lives in the human consciousness is drawn deeper into the body. So you find there the reverse characteristic of sleep. And especially in certain Vedanta writings you can find the thing characterized in such a way that this, of which we say that it draws itself out of the physical body and etheric body, sinks itself deeper into the physical and etheric corporeality during sleep, that what otherwise causes seeing draws itself into deeper parts of the eye, so that seeing can no longer come about. Why is this characterized in this way in Oriental writings? It is because the Oriental still stands on a different standpoint. Through his kind of clairvoyance he sees more what is going on inside the human being, what is happening inside. He pays less attention to the process of the upper aura going out and more to the fact of being permeated during sleep with the lower aura. Therefore, from his point of view, he is naturally right.\|141\|77ff}}

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	== The lotuses or chakras as spiritual organs of perception ==		== The lotuses or chakras as spiritual organs of perception ==
			[[File:Gichtel1.gif\|thumb\|[[w:Johann Georg Gichtel\|Johann Georg Gichtel]]: ''Theosophia practica'', 7 Tle., Leiden 1722, "Der gantz irdische natürliche finstere Mensch in Sternen und Elementen" (The whole earthly natural dark human being in stars and elements).
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			[[File:Gichtel reborn man.jpg\|thumb\|[[w:Johann Georg Gichtel\|Johann Georg Gichtel]]: ''Theosophia Practica'', Berlin/Leipzig 1736, "Der wiedergeborene Mensch In seiner Geburt in Christo, im Herzen, Welcher die Schlange ganz zermalmet" (''The reborn man in his birth in Christo, in the heart, which crushes the snake completely'').]]
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