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It would be wrong to imagine that a person, upon entering earthly existence, had a fully developed individual soul, and that this soul would then incarnate again and again in the same form here on earth. It is much more the case that the human being today is in a gradual transition from a group soul, which he had in ancient times, to the fully developed individual soul, which he still does not have today. He is only on the way to the complete integration of his individual soul into his physical body. He will only have this completed individual soul when the earthly existence is more or less complete. For the vast majority of people today, their ego is an intermediate product between a group ego and an individual ego. The further back we go in the past, the more the human ego is still a group ego. At the beginning of their existence on earth, when the souls first descended from the divine worlds into our physical plane, human souls were still group selves. Several people belonged together to a group that had a communal soul, a group self.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. Group Ego and Individual Ego","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-27","location":null,"word_count":336,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/101/1907-12-27/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA101/English/SOL2024/19071227p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Und so finden Sie auch einen Übergang zwischen den Gruppenseelen des Tierreiches und der Individualseele des Menschen. Es wäre unrichtig, sich vorzustellen, daß der Mensch gleich bei seinem Eintritt in das Erdendasein eine vollendete Individualseele gehabt hätte, und diese nun in derselben Art sich immer und immer wieder verkörpere hier auf der Erde. Es ist vielmehr so, daß der heutige Mensch in einem allmählichen Übergang ist von einer Gruppenseele, die er in uralten Zeiten hatte, zu der vollendeten Individualseele, die er heute noch immer nicht hat. Er ist erst auf dem Wege zu der völligen Eingliederung seiner Individualseele in seinen physischen Leib. Er wird diese vollendete Individualseele erst haben, wenn das Erdendasein mehr oder weniger vollendet sein wird. Für die weitaus meisten Menschen ist heute ihr Ich ein Zwischenprodukt zwischen einem Gruppen-Ich und einem individuellen Ich. Je weiter wir in der Vergangenheit zurückgehen, desto mehr ist das Menschen-Ich noch ein Gruppen-Ich. Im Anfange des Erdendaseins, als die Seelen sich erst aus den göttlichen Welten in unseren physischen Plan hinuntersenkten, waren die Menschenseelen noch Gruppen-Iche. 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