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One will speak of the human soul's sojourn in spiritual worlds before it descended to physical earth existence. Mainly, one will speak of what takes place before birth or before conception, just as one speaks of what happens to the human soul after death. Today, one does not sufficiently realize the significance that such mention of prenatal existence will have for the whole of human life, not only for the inner but also external life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XVII","site_heading":"Prenatal Existence and the Spiritual Foundations of Human Development","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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Wenn heute der gläubige, der irgendeiner Konfession zugehörige Mensch von der Ewigkeit, von der Unsterblichkeit der Menschenseele spricht, so denkt er zunächst ja an nichts anderes als an das Lebendigbleiben, das Bestehenbleiben der Menschenseele nach dem Tode. Man wird in der Zukunft, wenn die Anschauung der Geisteswissenschaft eine genügend große Anzahl von Menschen wird ergriffen haben, vor allen Dingen von dem vorgeburtlichen Dasein der Menschenseele sprechen, von dem Aufenthalt der Menschenseele in geistigen Welten, bevor sie heruntersteigt zum physischen Erdendasein, von alldem, was der Geburt oder der Empfängnis vorausgeht, ebenso wie von dem, was für diese Menschenseele nach dem Tode folgt. 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