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The human being who has absorbed spiritual ideas enters the spiritual world legitimately, but one who has rejected spiritual ideas is forced to remain in a certain sense within earthly conditions until he—and this may endure for a long time—has learned there to absorb enough spiritual concepts that he can be carried by them into the spiritual world. Whether we absorb spiritual concepts or reject them therefore determines our environment on the other side of the threshold. Many of those souls—and this must be said with compassion—who have rejected or were hindered from absorbing spiritual concepts here in life are still wandering about on earth and, though dead, remain bound to the earthly sphere. The soul of the human being, however, when no longer separated from its environment by the physical body—which can then no longer prevent the human soul from acting destructively—becomes a source of disturbance within the earthly sphere.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"10. 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Derjenige Mensch, welcher unter den gegenwärtigen Verhältnissen ganz und gar sich nur beschäftigt hat mit Vorstellungen und Begriffen und Empfindungen über die materielle, über die Sinneswelt, der verurteilt sich unter den gegenwärtigen Verhältnissen dazu, daß er nach dem Tode nur in einer Umgebung lebt, auf welche die während des leiblichen Lebens ausgeprägten Begriffe Bezug haben. Während der, welcher spirituelle Vorstellungen aufnimmt, rechtmäßig in die geistige Welt einzieht, muß derjenige, der es ablehnt, geistige Vorstellungen aufzunehmen, in gewissem Sinne in irdischen Verhältnissen verbleiben, bis er - und das dauert eine lange Zeit — gelernt hat, drüben so viel geistige Begriffe aufzunehmen, daß er durch sie in die geistige Welt getragen werden kann. Also, ob wir hier geistige Begriffe aufnehmen oder nicht, das bestimmt unsere Umgebung drüben. Viele von denen, die - man kann es nur mit Mitleid sagen — sich gesträubt haben oder verhindert waren, geistige Begriffe hier im Leben aufzunehmen, die wandeln auch noch als Tote auf Erden umher, bleiben mit der Erdensphäre in Verbindung. 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