I-80 The components of the human being taken into account by psychology and science, and how other components are effective agents beyond the realm of comprehension by psychology and science

The Bridge Between Universal Spirituality and the Physical Constitution of Man; Pastoral Medicine

Modern psychology (and science) considers only one part of the human being’s body (the solid) and one part of its soul (the Ego), and thus cannot come to an understanding of how they work upon each other. The divisions of body (left side below) and soul (right side below) are reflected in the following: (click here for chart)

The deeper, and effective, relationships of the upper three components of the body are reflected in the following:

4-fold Component	Activity	Body Component	Spiritual Component
Ego	Will	Warmth-Organism	Warmth Ether
Astral body	Feeling	Air-Organism	Light Ether
Etheric body	Thinking	Fluid-Organism	Chemical (Toneor Sound) Ether

While much in the above charts is beyond our scope, the bridge between universal spirituality and the human being’s physical being starts with the top line of the last chart, and the Warmth-Organism. The bridge is then built by moral ideas and destroyed by theoretical thoughts, as reflected by the following analyses:

Moral Ideas	Stimulate the Warmth-Organism
	Producing in the Air-Organism—sources of Light
	Producing in the Fluid-Organism—sources of Tone
	Producing in the Solid-Organism—“Seed(s)” of (etheric) Life.

Theoretical Thoughts	“Cool down” the Warmth-Organism
	“Paralyze” the sources of Light
	“Deaden” the sources of Tone
	“Extinguish” (etheric) Life.

Realizing that thinking lies in the nerve sense, feeling in the rhythmic, and willing in the metabolic, an important aspect of the relationship between these areas and our prior lives is reflected in the following Steiner drawing: ^{(click here for drawing)}

^{In order to connect the cycle, we must realize
that by the phrase “previous Earth lives,” Steiner is speaking of what
is carried over from them, primarily what came from the willing (metabolic)
element (which, in the first tabulation of this chart, relates to the
“Ego—Will—Warmth-Organism— Warmth Ether” category). Our thoughts and
our knowledge, to the extent they do not play down into the will element
(the “deed” element) do not become the “Seed” of our future spiritual
(or worldly existence). As Paul said in 1 Cor 13,8, our “knowledge”
does indeed pass away, and this happens with our death in this life;
only our will, or deed, element (the true reflector of “love”), the
“eternal seed,” passes over. One must, of course, and will immediately
see that our moral thoughts and our feelings are activators of our will
(deed) element. But thoughts and feelings that we do not carry forth
into the outer world in the form of deeds do not carry forward in any
positive sense.
Steiner
carries this forward, saying that there is no eternal conservation of
matter or energy, for matter is transformed into semblance and semblance
is raised to reality by will—all by the human being who stands as the
supreme achievement of the cosmos. It is only because of unwillingness
to consider things summarized in this chart that ideas of the imperishability
of matter and energy were invented. If they were imperishable, there
would be no moral world order. As always, this chart is but a hint,
a pointer, and it would be unwise to overlook the fact that a more thorough
explanation is available in the lecture texts.}

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