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After having progressed and improved, they incarnated in the leading population of Europe, and the development then took place in such a way that, on the whole, as a physical race, the bodily forms in which the most ancient European population had originally incarnated died out; the souls forsook the bodies which were formed in a certain way, and which then died out. The offspring of the lower races decreased in number while the higher increased until gradually the lowest classes of the European population completely die out. This is a definite process, which we must grasp. The souls develop further, the bodies die out. For this reason we must be careful to distinguish between soul development and race development. The souls reappear in the bodies belonging to higher races. the lower race bodies die out. A process such as this does not take place without effect. When over large areas something disappears as it were, it does not disappear into nothing, but it dissolves and then exists in a different form. When in ancient times the worst part of the population of which I have just now spoken, died out, the whole region became gradually inhabited by demons, representing the products of dissolution, the products of the putrefaction of that which had died out.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Moral Impulses: From Atlantean Fall to Francis of Assisi","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Die Seelen bleiben durchaus nicht bei den Rassen. Die Seelenentwickelung ist etwas ganz anderes als die Rassenentwickelung. Die Rassenentwickelung geht ihren ruhigen Gang vorwärts. Nun war es bei der alten europäischen Entwickelung so, daß die Seelen versetzt waren in europäische Rassen, weil sie nicht in die asiatischen Rassen hinüber konnten; deshalb waren die Seelen in jener Zeit immer wieder gezwungen, sich in europäischen Rassen zu verkörpern. Aber sie wurden immer besser und besser, und das führte dann dazu, daß die Seelen allmählich in höhere Rassen übergingen, daß also Seelen, die in ganz untergeordneten Rassen früher verkörpert waren, auf eine höhere Stufe hinauf sich entwickelten und sich später verkörpern konnten in den leiblichen Nachkommen der führenden Bevölkerung Europas. Die leiblichen Nachkommen der führenden Bevölkerung Europas vermehrten sich, wurden zahlreicher als sie ursprünglich waren, weil die Seelen nach dieser Richtung sich vermehrten. Da verkörperten sie sich also, nachdem sie besser geworden waren, in der führenden Bevölkerung Europas, und die Entwickelung geschah nun so, daß überhaupt als physische Rasse die leibliche Gestalt, in welcher sich die älteste europäische Bevölkerung ursprünglich verkörpert hatte, ausstarb, daß also gleichsam die Seelen verließen bestimmt geformte Leiber, die dann ausstarben. Das war der Grund, daß in den untergeordneten Rassen immer weniger Nachkommen waren, in den übergeordneten immer mehr und mehr. Nach und nach starben dann die untersten Schichten der europäischen Bevölkerung ganz aus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":327,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/155/1912-05-29/p016"},{"locus":"GA 155/1912-05-29/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"So etwas ist eben ein ganz bestimmter Vorgang, den wir verstehen müssen. Die Seelen entwickeln sich weiter, die Leiber sterben dahin. Deshalb müssen wir so genau unterscheiden zwischen Seelen- und Rassenentwickelung. Die Seelen erscheinen dann in den Körpern, die von höheren Rassen abstammen. Solch ein Vorgang geschieht nicht ohne Wirkung. Wenn nämlich so etwas geschieht, daß über große Gebiete hin etwas gleichsam verschwindet, so verschwindet es nicht im Nichts, sondern es löst sich auf und ist dann in einer anderen Form vorhanden. 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