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This can not be done till he has passed through all his incarnations, at least not in normal evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"The Hierarchical Structure of Earth's Four Kingdoms","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1908-08-06","location":null,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/105/1908-08-06/p035","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"H. 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Wir wissen, es geht durch viele Verkörperungen hindurch. Einmal, in einem gewissen Punkte der Erdentwickelung, beginnt der Mensch als Seelen-Ich in seiner ersten Inkarnation auf der Erde zu leben. Dann stirbt er, es kommt eine Zwischenzeit, dann eine neue Verkörperung, und so geht es fort von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation, und das wird erst in einem fernen Punkte der menschlichen Entwickelung sein Ende haben. Dann wird der Mensch durch alle Inkarnationen hindurchgegangen sein, und dann wird er auch die Fähigkeit erlangt haben, seinen astralischen Leib vollkommen zu beherrschen. Das kann er nicht früher, als bis er durch alle Inkarnationen hindurchgegangen ist, wenigstens nicht in normaler Entwickelung. Da verfolgt nun ein solcher höherer Geist das Innerste der Menschennatur, was sich von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation zieht, und leitet den Menschen von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation, so daß er seine Erdenmission wirklich erfüllen kann. Es ist in der Tat so, wie wenn der Mensch seit dem Beginn seiner Erdenwanderung hinaufsehen könnte nach einem erhabenen Geist, der sein Vorbild ist, der ganz seinen astralischen Leib beherrschen kann, der ihm sagt: So mußt du sein, wenn du einst aus dieser Erdentwickelung heraustrittst. — Das ist die Aufgabe der sogenannten Geister des Engelreiches, die Inkarnationen der Menschen zu leiten. Und ob man sagt, der Mensch blickt auf zu seinem höheren Selbst, dem er immer ähnlicher werden soll, oder ob man sagt, er schaue zu seinem Engel als zu seinem großen Vorbilde hinauf, das ist im Grunde genommen geistig ganz dasselbe.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/105/1908-08-06/p019"}],"english":["GA 105/1908-08-06/p034","GA 105/1908-08-06/p035","GA 105/1908-08-06/p036"],"method":"embedding","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":254,"en_words":457,"ratio":1.8,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5028,"original_word_count":5094,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"H. 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