Causal body

Causal body (Sanskrit: कारणशरीर karana sharira, via कारण kāraṇa "cause, reason, motive", derived from the Sanskrit root कृ kṛ (kri) "to do, make, act, effect" and शारीर sharira "body") is called in Indian theosophical terminology that extract of the etheric and astral body which the human being carries on from incarnation to incarnation as his eternal (→ entelechy) and thereby enriches it more and more. Rudolf Steiner hardly ever used this term in later writings and lectures.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Über die astrale Welt und das Devachan, GA 88 (1999), ISBN 3-7274-0880-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Vor dem Tore der Theosophie, GA 95 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-0952-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Theosophie des Rosenkreuzers, GA 99 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-0990-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschheitsentwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis, GA 100 (1981), ISBN 3-7274-1000-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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