{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 110/1909-04-21/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is karmically conditioned that a person is born into a particular family; it may be the fulfillment of past karma. But a person can also create new karmic connections for himself. We create them for ourselves through what we do today. People who are truly connected to each other meet again and again. The fact that we were born into a certain environment is an expression of previous karma. But one does not always have to remain connected to those with whom one is related by blood. Spiritual ties, formed out of family ties, lead to each other again. But such things change with the different cycles of humanity; consanguinity is beginning to have less significance than before, and it will lose this significance more and more. In the development of humanity, the binding force of blood ties becomes weaker and weaker.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Questions And Answers I","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-04-21","location":null,"word_count":143,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/110/1909-04-21/p036","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":"Spiritual Hierarchies Q & A","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA110/English/SOL2024/19090421p01.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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Menschen, die wahrhaft miteinander verbunden sind, begegnen sich immer wieder. Daß wir in eine bestimmte Umgebung hineingeboren sind, ist ein Ausdruck früheren Karmas. Man muß aber nicht immer verbunden bleiben mit denjenigen, mit denen man blutsverwandt ist. Seelische Bande, aus Familienbanden geformt, führen wieder zusammen. - Solche Dinge ändern sich aber mit den verschiedenen Menschheitszyklen; die Blutsverwandtschaft fängt an, eine geringere Bedeutung zu haben gegen früher, und sie wird diese Bedeutung immer mehr verlieren. 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