{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-23/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we see that the ancient peoples had very significant conceptions in connection with the sun's passage through the single signs of the Zodiac. This again is connected with the fact that man reincarnates after a definite space of time; on the average, when 2,200 years have gone by since his last incarnation. Within this epoch, it makes a great difference whether he incarnates upon the earth as a man or as a woman, and so the calculation of the time during which the single. incarnations take place is very complicated. A human being's experiences during an incarnation as a man or as a woman differ so much, that he must incarnate twice during this epoch of 2,200 years, once as a man, and once as a woman, so that two incarnations succeed one another during the average period of one thousand years. Therefore 1,100 to 1,200 years only lie between two incarnations. Generally speaking, it is therefore right that a male and a female incarnation should alternate, but in exceptional cases there may be several succeeding incarnations of the same sex (the greatest number which could be observed was seven), but then the sex changes. These are exceptions, for as a rule the sexes alternate in the successive incarnations.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VIII. Supplementary Thoughts on the Law Of Reincarnation and Karma. 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Die Erlebnisse, die der Mensch in einer Verkörperung als Mann oder als Frau hat, sind so verschieden, daß er sich zweimal während einer solchen Epoche verkörpern muß, einmal als Mann und einmal als Frau; so daß also auf den ungefähren Zeitraum von zwei Jahrtausenden zwei Verkörperungen erfolgen, in Wirklichkeit also nur 1100 bis 1200 Jahre zwischen zwei Verkörperungen liegen. Deshalb ist es auch im Durchschnitt richtig, daß eine männliche und eine weibliche Inkarnation abwechseln. Ausnahmsweise aber können auch einmal hintereinander mehrere Inkarnationen im selben Geschlechte folgen - die größte Zahl, die beobachtet worden ist, war sieben -; dann aber wechselt das Geschlecht. 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