Sleep

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During sleep, which normally occurs in the daily sleep-wake rhythm, the structure of the human being's members changes. In the day-waking state, the physical body, etheric body, astral body and I are closely connected with each other. Our present waking consciousness is essentially based on the functions of the physical body, namely on the sense organs and the physical brain. Through the activity of this waking consciousness, however, the animate physical body is partially filled with destructive forces. Consciousness is not based on vital building processes, but rather on degradation processes. In sleep, the damage thus caused must be compensated for as far as possible. This is only possible in that during sleep the I and the astral body are at least partially lifted out of the human being and only the animate physical body, i.e. the connection between the etheric body and the physical body, remains in bed. Those high spiritual beings that created the physical body and the etheric body then move into them to revive them. A special significance is given to those spirits who are called Laj'lah (Hebrew: לילה "night") in Genesis. They are Primordial Angels (Spirits of Personality) retarded in their development, who served the Elohim as Spirits of Darkness or Spirits of the Night in their work of creation. They are retarded on the level of Old Saturn, that lightless, dark world of heat on which the first plant of the physical body was created and can therefore regenerate it.

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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