Rudolf Steiner Audio CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 6 (Dornach, 2 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Mar 23, 2026
A journey through how body, etheric and astral elements separate after death and shape future lives. Exploration of the threefold human organization and how organs map to thinking, feeling and will. Discussion of karma recorded in the heart, metabolic moral qualities, and how organ surfaces and secretions preserve impressions. Reflections on conception, karmic hunger in relationships, and spiritual diagnosis versus modern medicine.
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Head Shape Is Metamorphosed From Prior Metabolism
- Human morphological features metamorphose between lives so the head forms from prior metabolic-limb forces.
- Rudolf Steiner explains phrenology as the head being the transformed outcome of last incarnation's metabolic organization.
Develop Spiritual Cognition To See Beyond Atomism
- Train spiritual cognitive faculties beyond materialist science to perceive organs and the spiritual nature behind matter.
- Steiner recommends practices from Knowledge of the Higher Worlds to replace atomistic constructs with spiritual substance perception.
Memory Reflects From Organ Surfaces Not Just Brain
- Memory and soul-life reflect from organ surfaces rather than residing solely in the nervous system.
- Steiner names lungs, liver, heart, kidneys as surfaces that mirror different kinds of memory and soul impressions.