{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 183/1918-08-19/p011","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But still more interesting is his book published after his death by his friend Rappaport, in which all kinds of most interesting things appear. These are mostly aphorisms, and the whole bears the title *Über die letzten Dinge* ( *About ultimate questions*), the greater part of it being aphorisms. One of these aphorisms is approximately to this effect—Weininger maintains that the human soul during life before birth might have developed a certain dread of itself and because of this have longed to forget this life and bury itself in oblivion—which means incarnating. Thus Weininger expressly talks of pre-earthly life and of incarnating, only he speaks in a gloomy, pessimistic way of how the soul seeks to bemuse itself about its life before birth, and seeks this oblivion through incarnation in a physical human body. Many such direct impressions are received by present-day can concerning the path of the soul and they will become ever more numerous.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture III","site_heading":"Soul Boundaries and Future Human Evolution","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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Ja, es wird diese Zeit schon im fünften nachatlantischen Zeitraum beginnen, in unserem Zeitraum. Es wird allerlei durchsickern wollen. Es wird sich das ja vor allen Dingen dadurch äußern, daß viel mehr Menschen, als man heute denkt, immer mehr und mehr aus gewissen rein inneren Erfahrungen entnehmen werden, daß es wiederholte Erdenleben gibt und dergleichen. Diese Dinge kommen, man möchte sagen, heute schon, obwohl spärlich, zum Durchbruche. Ich habe öfter, hier ja wohl auch schon, den Namen eines merkwürdigen Menschen der Gegenwart genannt, des O/to Weininger, der ja besonders bekanntgeworden ist durch sein dickes Buch «Geschlecht und Charakter». Noch interessanter aber ist dasjenige Buch, das nach seinem Tode sein Freund Rappaport herausgegeben hat, und in dem allerlei außerordentlich Interessantes drinnensteht. Es sind zum großen Teil Aphorismen. Das Ganze trägt den Titel «Über die letzten Dinge». 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