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The predominating feeling must be a longing to return, in order to become, in the next life and in subsequent ones, what he could not become in one incarnation. This longing for ever new earth lives must be the most powerful force. These thoughts can only be touched upon, but they yield the strongest confirmation of reincarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"4. Laws of Nature, Evolution of Consciousness and Repeated Earth Lives","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-12-16","location":null,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/115/1911-12-16/p020","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:embedding","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA115/English/AP1971/19111216p01.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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