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But the time has come when we must again learn gradually to recognise how the eternal individuality passes through the several single personalities. Now we find that mankind is striving to apprehend what it is that lives on from personality to personality. That will fire the imagination and illumine the souls of men with a new light of understanding. This can be illustrated by a particular example.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-08","location":null,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-08/p015","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Die abendländische Kultur war bestimmt, die einzelne Persönlichkeit zur Geltung zu bringen, sie frisch und charakteristisch zu gestalten und abzusehen von demjenigen, was von Leben zu Leben als Individualität hindurchgeht. Jetzt aber stehen wir wieder davor, allmählich zu erkennen, wie durch die einzelnen Persönlichkeiten hindurchgeht die ewige Individualität. Jetzt erleben wir, wie die Menschheit dahin strebt, hinzublicken auf dasjenige, was von Persönlichkeit zu Persönlichkeit lebt. Das wird bedeuten eine neue Befeuerung der menschlichen Seele, ein neues Verständnis bringendes Licht, das sich ausbreiten wird über die menschlichen Seelen. 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