One of the 26 lessons from the Foundations in Anthroposophy Course written by Erwin Berney.

“The ego uses the temperament to express itself. Temperaments are a medium of understanding between people and also a help for understanding children, which is important for parents and teachers. Temperament is in the middle between what originates from the line of heredity and what we bring with us as individuals. The temperament is the mediator, balancing the transitory (the inherited) with the eternal (the Ego individuality). This mediation works through our etheric body (life-body) and its four-fold structure and through this our biological (life) functions express themselves as our four temperaments.”

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