{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 175/1917-04-10/p035","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The third member of man's being is the spirit. The physical or corporeal is expressed in the line of descent from father to son. The son becomes a father and this son in his turn becomes a father and so on through the generations. In this way inherited characteristics are transmitted from one generation to another. The psychic life as such is created with the birth of the individual and persists after death. Its destiny is determined by the extent to which the soul can remain in touch with the Kingdom of Heaven. The spirit persists through repeated incarnations on Earth and everything depends upon the kind of bodies it can find in the course of its successive lives on Earth. On the one hand there is the line of descent on the physical plane, in which the spirit participates; but the line of descent is permeated with physically inherited characteristics. What potentialities the spirit finds in the course of its successive incarnations depends upon whether mankind has progressed or deteriorated. Out of the spirit one cannot create bodies to order; one can only select those which are relatively best suited to the spirit that is about to incarnate; one cannot tailor them to measure.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Christ's Cosmic Mission and the Transformation of Faith","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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Der Sohn wird wieder Vater, der Sohn wird wieder Vater und so weiter, da vererben sich die Eigenschaften von Generation zu Generation. Das Seelische, das wird geschaffen als solches mit der Entstehung eines Menschen, bleibt bestehen nach dem Tode. Sein Schicksal hängt davon ab, wie verwandt bleiben kann die Seele mit dem Reiche der Himmel. Das Dritte ist der Geist. Der Geist lebt in wiederholten Erdenleben. Sehen Sie, für den Geist hängt es davon ab, welche Leiber er findet bei seinen wiederholten Erdenleben. Es geht ja auf der einen Seite unten die Vererbungslinie vor sich. Gewiß, er wirkt da mit; aber die Vererbungslinie ist durchzogen von den physisch vererbten Eigenschaften. Welche Eigenschaften die Geister finden, die sich verkörpern bei den Wiederverkörperungen, das hängt davon ab, wie die Menschheit aufsteigt oder degeneriert. Man kann nicht vom Geiste aus die Leiber machen, wie man sie will. 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