{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 119/1910-03-21/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"If we now concern ourselves with the length of time during which man productively works into the spiritual what he has gained in the last life, then we must ask ourselves above all: Does this law of repeated earthly lives, to which we have been pointed, have a certain meaning? Yes, it has a meaning, and this is shown by the fact that a person, after having gone through one incarnation, does not appear in a new life when he can undergo the same experiences again, but only when the earthly outer world has changed in the meantime so that he can undergo completely new experiences. Anyone who reflects a little on evolution will find that, even in physical terms, the earth's physiognomy changes considerably from millennium to millennium. Consider what it might have looked like here, where the city is now, at the time of Christ, how it was quite different, and how this patch of earth has changed since that time; and consider how what we call the moral, intellectual and other spiritual development of humanity has changed over the course of a few centuries. Consider what children absorbed during their first years of life a few centuries ago, and consider what they assimilate during their first years of life today. The earth changes its physiognomy, and after a certain time the human being can enter the earth again and everything is so changed that he can now experience something new. 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Derjenige, der nun ein wenig nachdenkt über die Entwickelung, wird finden, daß schon in bezug auf das Physische die Erdenphysiognomie von Jahrtausend zu Jahrtausend sich beträchtlich ändert. Denken Sie einmal nach, wie es etwa ausgesehen haben mag hier, wo jetzt diese Stadt liegt, zur Zeit Christi, wie es da ganz anders war, und wie dieser Erdenfleck sich seit dieser Zeit verändert hat; und denken Sie daran, wie sich erst dasjenige, was wir moralische, intellektuelle und sonstige geistige Entwickelung der Menschheit nennen, im Laufe weniger Jahrhunderte ändert. Denken wir daran, was die Kinder etwa vor wenigen Jahrhunderten in den ersten Lebensjahren in sich aufgenommen haben, und denken wir daran, was sie heute in den ersten Lebensjahren verarbeiten. Die Erde ändert ihre Physiognomie, und nach einer bestimmten Zeit kann der Mensch die Erde wieder betreten und da ist alles so verändert, daß er nun Neues erleben kann. 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