Rudolf Steiner Audio CW 206: Human Beings as Spiritual Being: Lecture 9: The Connection between the human soul and spirit and physical corporeality. Evil (Dornach, 14 August 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Feb 25, 2026
A deep look at how soul, spirit and the physical body are interwoven. Contrasts modern materialism with a view that thinking and will have bodily roots. Explores imagination, sleep and visions as windows into inner life. Discusses memory, morality and how spiritual processes relate to natural growth and decay.
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Spirit Soul And Body Are One Process
- Rudolf Steiner argues spirit-soul and physical body are two sides of one process, not separate absolutes, requiring expanded observation beyond materialist science.
- He insists imaginative spiritual observation can reveal how thinking, feeling, and will correlate with bodily processes.
Engage Ideas With Healthy Common Sense
- Develop the will to engage with spiritual-scientific ideas and use healthy common sense rather than demanding esoteric schooling.
- Steiner advises overcoming exclusively sense-based scientific habits to test spiritual ideas in ideal terms.
Thinking Versus Will As Biological Opposites
- Steiner maps thinking to consciousness and will to unconscious growth/metabolism, making them polar opposites within the same organism.
- He links will to proliferative bodily processes and thinking to the opposing dying-away or differentiation within tissues.