Anthroposophical View of The Human Being - Sevenfold View

Sevenfold View

In Steiner's sevenfold and ninefold descriptions, a human is composed of physical-body, life-body, astral-body, ego, spirit-self, life-spirit, and spirit-man.

• the physical body, material structure
• the life body, life processes,
• the astral body, bearer of consciousness,
• the ego, self-awareness,
• the spirit-self, intuition and self,
• the life-spirit, enduring spirit-soul content,
• the spirit-man, the fully individuated spirit.

The ego experiences itself through all three of the unconscious elements (consciousness, life and physicality) in specific ways: through the astral body, bearer of sentience, in the dreamier experience of the sentient soul; through the life body as rationality in the intellectual soul; through the physical body as fully conscious, autonomous egoity in the consciousness soul. Through differentiating ego consciousness into its experience as mediated through these unconscious organs, this gives a ninefold articulation of a human: physicality, life, consciousness; sentient, intellectual and consciousness soul; spirit self, life spirit, spirit man.