Man as a Being of Sense and Perception

Three Lectures Given at Dornach, Switzerland 22, 23, 24, July, 1921 (GA 206)

Contents:

I. Ego-consciousness and the content of the senses; the ego as reality. The sphere of transmission of sense-perception: the four subjective outer senses, the four sensses oscillating between outer and inner, the four objective inner senses. Man's soul-life and his cosmic being. The inner activity of soul-life and its outwardly directed activity. The specific characteristics of individual senses. Analysis of the field of experience. 22nd July, 1921.

II. The distinction between upper and lower man: both representative of the world-process. The two poles of our experience show the relationship of morality to natural necessity. The separation between the spheres of knowledge and faith. Historical consciouness must be acquired by the survey of ever-greater priods of time. The Greek philosophers. The real connection with spiritual world later became tradition, but with mark of knowledge; Gnostic ideas. By the fourth century the content of these ideas lost. Augustine. Transition to the abstract intellectualism of the fifteenth century. Ancient oriental culture based on the six upper senses. Western culture based on the six lower senses. Aristotelianism in Christian theology. Attack on the doctrine of pre-existence. 23rd July, 1921.

III. The faculty of memory and the capacity for love, though facts of soul-life, belong to the bodily life. Faculty of ideation dependent upon the formation of the head, faculty of memory upon the metabolic-limb organization; relation to the world of feeling. The images of the members of man's being bound up with the physical organization. Teething as an example of a kind of image in the physical. The spiritual members as either free or bound to the physical organization. The interplay of the spiritual and the bodily in memory and love. The pictorial representation of the spiritual world in the material world gives us an insight into the origin of matter from spirit. Within the soul-spiritual we experience morality, within the physical-bodily, natural necessity. The dematerialization of the human being. 'I am free. '  24th July, 1921.

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