Astral / sentient body (3)
Astralleib / Empfindungsleib — the soul-body
Astralleib — the astral or sentient body: the bearer of sensation, feeling, desire, and instinctive consciousness. Anthroposophy positions the astral body as the principle shared with the animal kingdom: animals have physical, etheric, and astral but no I. The astral body is what makes the body capable of inwardness, of feeling its own states. In Steiner's later lectures (Vom Menschenrätsel, 1916) the astral is increasingly described as the substrate within which the soul-members (sentient / intellectual / consciousness) operate: feeling, thinking, and willing all happen in the astral, but their organising principle is the I above it.
Point 3 of 7 in Anthroposophy — Steiner's Seven-Fold Human
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Rudolf Steiner, Theosophie (primary_canonical)
Steiner, Theosophy, ch. I, 'The Essential Nature of Man,' places the astral body among the members that bear sensation, feeling, and desire; it is the chapter's human-constitution account rather than a claim about a measurable astral organ.
Rudolf Steiner, Vom Menschenrätsel (primary_canonical)
Steiner, Vom Menschenrätsel (GA 170, 1916), the lecture cycle's discussions of the astral body and the soul-members, develops the astral as the field in which sentient, intellectual, and consciousness activity is organised; the work is cited by GA/lecture cycle because pagination varies by translation.