The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World

GA 168/1916-12-03/p003 ·1916-12-03 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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From yesterday's public lecture, you were able to see how the spiritual world in which we find ourselves between death and a new birth is intertwined with the physical world, just as, in essence, the spiritual world and the physical world are intertwined in our so-called physical life between birth and death. We give ourselves, as it were, the direction for the way in which we are born with these or those characteristics by being connected between death and a new birth with what happens here in the physical world, and thus also with the stream of heredity that ultimately leads to our birth.

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