{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 117/1909-12-04/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here we must look to the most striking new quality of man's soul, which is preparing. The question is often put: Well, if reincarnation exists, why does a person not remember the former incarnations? That is a question which I have often answered. Such a question appears as when one brings along a four-year-old child, and because it is a human being, and cannot reckon, one would say: Man cannot reckon. But let the child become ten years old, and then it will reckon. It is thus with the human soul. If today it cannot remember, yet, the time will come in which it can remember—the time when it has the same powers as he possesses who is initiated today. But just today that transition is happening. There exist today a number of souls who are so far on in our time, who stand close to the moment where they will remember their former incarnations, or at least the last one. A whole number of human beings today are, as it were, before the self-opening of the door to that embracing memory, which comprises not only the life between birth and death, but the previous incarnations, or at least, the last, in the first place. And when, after the present incarnation, a number of human beings are reborn, then they will remember this present incarnation. It is merely a question of *how* they remember. Anthroposophical development should give help and direction to remember in the right way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. Group-soulness and Ego-hood.","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-04","location":null,"word_count":247,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/117/1909-12-04/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":null,"book_title":"The Ego","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/The_Ego/19091204p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Es wird oft die Frage gestellt: Ja, wenn es eine Wiederverkörperung gibt, warum erinnert sich der Mensch nicht an seine früheren Verkörperungen? — Das ist eine Frage, die schon öfter von mir beantwortet worden ist, und eine solche Frage nimmt sich so aus, wie wenn man ein vierjähriges Kind bringt und deshalb, weil es nicht rechnen kann und ein Mensch ist, sagen wollte: Der Mensch kann nicht rechnen. — Lassen Sie es zehn Jahre alt werden, dann kann es schon rechnen. So ist es mit der menschlichen Seele. Wenn sie sich auch heute noch nicht erinnern kann, es wird die Zeit kommen, in der sie sich erinnern kann, die Zeit, in der sie dieselben Fähigkeiten hat, wie derjenige sie hat, der heute eingeweiht ist. Aber gerade heute geschieht jener Umschwung. Es gibt heute eine Anzahl von Seelen, welche in unserer Zeit so weit sind, daß sie knapp vor dem Momente stehen, wo sie an ihre früheren Inkarnationen, wenigstens an die letzte, sich erinnern werden. Eine ganze Anzahl von Menschen ist heute sozusagen gerade vor dem Sich-Öfnen des Tores zu dem umfassenden Gedächtnis, das nicht nur das Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, sondern das die vorhergehenden Inkarnationen, wenigstens die letzte zunächst umfaßt. Und wenn nachder gegenwärtigen Inkarnation eine Anzahl von Menschen wiedergeboren werden, dann werden sie sich erinnern an die gegenwärtige Inkarnation. Es handelt sich nur darum, wie sie sich erinnern. 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