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This has to be borne by the spiritual world, and it is borne by the fact that both in the West and the East—we shall consider only these two regions for the time being—a peculiar and deeply significant phenomenon is appearing. And it is this: very many people—at least relatively many—are being born who do not follow the regular course of reincarnation.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":147,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/200/1920-10-22/p012","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 200/1920-10-22/p009","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/200/1920-10-22/p009"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":391,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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What confronts us as a human being in human form does not always have to be as it outwardly appears. The outer appearance can, in fact, be just appearance. It is possible for us to confront human beings in human form who only appear to be human beings of the kind that are subject to repeated lives on earth. In reality these are human bodies with a physical, etheric and astral body—but there are other beings incarnated here, beings who use these people in order to work through them. There are in fact a large number of people, for example in the West, who are not simply reincarnated human beings but are the bearers of beings who have taken an extremely premature path of development and who should only appear in the form of humanity at a later stage of their evolution. Now these beings do not make use of the whole human organism but use chiefly the metabolic system of these Western human beings. Of the three members of the human nature they use the metabolic system and do so in such a way that, through these human beings, they work into the physical world. For one who can observe life with a certain accuracy, people of this kind even show outwardly that this is how it is with them. Thus, for example, a large number of those individuals who belong to Anglo-Saxon secret societies and who have great influence—we have spoken on a number of occasions in past years of the roll of these secret societies[^9]—are actually the bearers of premature existences of this kind which, through the metabolic system of certain people, work into the world and seek out a field of action through human bodies and do not live in normal regular incarnations. The leading personalities of certain sects are of this nature, and the overwhelming majority of a very widespread sect that has a great following in the West is made up of individuals of this kind. In this way a completely different spirituality is working into present-day human beings and it will be an essential task to be able to take up a stand towards life from this point of view.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":514,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/200/1920-10-22/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 200/1920-10-22/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/200/1920-10-22/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":569,"en_words":638,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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This would mean that we do not attribute to external semblance the quality of semblance. To face the truth means even in cases like these, to seek truth; to seek reality where outer appearance is so deceptive that beings other than human beings are incorporated in human form, in a part of the human being, namely in the metabolic system. But they also work in the trunk, in the rhythmic system and in the sensory-nervous system. There are in fact three kinds of beings of this nature who incarnate in this way through the metabolic system of different people of the West.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":124,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/200/1920-10-22/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1920-10-22","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 200/1920-10-22/p010","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/200/1920-10-22/p010"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":569,"en_words":638,"ratio":1.12,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Als Cromwell zur rechten Zeit aus wirtschaftlichen Impulsen heraus seine ja für die anderen Mächte außerordentlich tyrannische, man kann sagen, brutale Navigationsakte geschaffen hat, da war aber diese Navigationsakte aus wirtschaftlichem Denken entsprungen. Als Tirpitz innerhalb der neueren Entwickelung die deutsche Schiffahrt, die deutsche Marine schuf, da war das politisch gedacht, rein politisch, ohne jeden wirtschaftlichen Impuls, ja gegen alle wirtschaftlichen Instinkte. Heute ist das von der Erdoberfläche hinweggefegt, weil es gegen den Lauf der Menschheitsentwickelung gedacht und geplant war. Und so könnte man in bezug auf alle einzelnen Erscheinungen zeigen, wie, man möchte sagen, diese historische Dreigliederung da ist: im Osten, aber heute in der Dekadenz, etwas, was auf alte Zeiten der östlichen Entwickelung zurückweist, und was einen geistigen Charakter hat; in der Mitte etwas, was aber heute auch schon antiquiert ist, was immer mehr oder weniger annimmt die Form des Politisch- Juristisch-Militärischen, des Staatlichen; im Westen ist der Staat nur immer Dekoration, das Politische hat gar keine Bedeutung, keine wirkliche Bedeutung; da präponderiert das wirtschaftliche Denken. Während Deutschland daran zugrunde gegangen ist, daß sein Staat die Wirtschaft aufgesogen hat, daß die Industriellen, die Kommerziellen untertauchten und sich duckten unter die Macht des Staates, sehen wir, wie im Westen der Staat aufgesogen wird von dem Wirtschaftsleben, und alles überflutet ist von dem Wirtschaftsleben. Das ist äußerlich angesehen die Differenzierung über die heutige zivilisierte Welt hin. Aber das, was man so äußerlich ansehen kann, das ist schließlich im Grunde nur an die äußere Oberfläche getragen aus den Untergründen der geistigen Welt heraus. Es ist alles in der geistigen Entwickelung der neueren Zeit daraufhin angelegt, die Individualität emporzubringen, die Individualität im Westen nach westlicher Art, nach wirtschaftlicher Art; die Individualität in der Mitte nach der heute schon antiquierten staatlich-politisch-militärischen Art; die Individualität des Ostens nach antiquierter Art, nach der alten Geistigkeit, vollständig in der Dekadenz. Das muß von der geistigen Welt getragen werden. Und es wird dadurch getragen, daß sowohl im Westen wie im Osten - wollen wir zunächst von diesen zwei Gebieten reden - eine eigentümliche, tief bedeutsame Erscheinung auftritt. Es ist diese, daß außerordentlich viele Menschen, wenigstens verhältnismäßig viele Menschen geboren werden, die nicht den regelmäßigen Gang der Wiederverkörperung zeigen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":391,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/200/1920-10-22/p009"},{"locus":"GA 200/1920-10-22/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Sehen Sie, deshalb ist es ja so schwierig, über ein solches Problem wie die Wiederverkörperung zu sprechen, weil man nicht in einem heute beliebten abstrakten Sinne von ihr sprechen kann, weil ein solches Problem zwar auf etwas hinweist, was eine bedeutsamste Realität in der Menschheitsentwickelung ist, was aber Ausnahmen erlaubt, und wir sehen sowohl im Osten wie im Westen — von der Mitte werden wir noch zu reden haben in diesen Tagen -, daß heute Menschen geboren werden, denen wir nicht so gegenübertreten können, daß wir sagen können: In ganz regelmäßiger Weise lebt in diesen Menschen eine Individualität, die da war in einem früheren Leben und wieder in einem früheren Leben, die da sein wird in einem späteren Leben und wieder in einem späteren Leben. — Diese Wiederverkörperungen sind zwar der regelmäßige Gang der Menschheitsentwickelung, aber sie erleiden eben Ausnahmen. Dasjenige, was uns als Mensch in Menschenform entgegentritt, muß nicht immer das sein, was der äußere Schein zeigt. Der äußere Schein kann eben Schein sein. Es können uns Menschen in Menschenform entgegentreten, die eigentlich nur dem äußeren Scheine nach solche Menschen sind, die immer wiederkommenden Erdenleben unterliegen; in Wahrheit sind das Menschenkörper mit physischem, ätherischem, astralischem Leib, aber in diesen verkörpern sich andere Wesenheiten, Wesenheiten, die sich dieser Menschen bedienen, um durch sie zu wirken. Es ist in der Tat so, daß zum Beispiel im Westen es wirklich eine große Anzahl solcher Menschen gibt, welche im Grunde genommen nicht einfach wiederverkörperte Menschen sind, sondern welche die Träger sind von Wesenheiten, die einen ausgesprochen verfrühten Entwickelungsgang zeigen, die eigentlich erst in einem späteren Entwickelungsstadium in der Menschheitsform auftreten sollten. Diese Wesenheiten benützen nun nicht den ganzen menschlichen Organismus, sondern sie benützen vorzugsweise von diesen westlichen Menschen das Stoffwechselsystem. Von den drei Gliedern der menschlichen Natur benützen sie das Stoffwechselsystem so, daß sie hereinwirken durch diese Menschen hindurch in diese physische Welt. Solche Menschen zeigen auch äußerlich schon für denjenigen, der das Leben richtig betrachten kann, daß es so mit ihnen steht. So sind zum Beispiel eine große Anzahl derjenigen Menschen, welche angelsächsischen Geheimgesellschaften angehören — die Rolle solcher Geheimgesellschaften haben wir ja in den letzten Jahren wiederholt besprochen -, so sind diese Angehörigen solcher Geheimgesellschaften, die einflußreich sind, eigentlich Träger solcher verfrühter Existenzen, die durch das Stoffwechselsystem gewisser Menschen hereinwirken in die Welt und sich ein Arbeitsfeld suchen durch die Leiber der Menschen, die nicht in regelmäßigen Wiederverkörperungen leben. Ebenso sind die tonangebenden Persönlichkeiten gewisser Sekten von solcher Art, und namentlich ist die überwiegende Zahl einer sehr verbreiteten Sekte, die großen Anhang hat im Westen, aus Menschen von dieser Art bestehend. Auf diese Weise wirkt, ich möchte sagen, eine ganz andere Geistigkeit herein in die gegenwärtigen Menschen. Und es wird eine wesentliche Aufgabe sein, Stellung nehmen zu können zum Leben von diesen Gesichtspunkten aus. Nicht sollte man in abstrakter Weise glauben, daß ausnahmslos die Menschen überall den wiederholten Erdenleben unterliegen. Das hieße dem äußeren Schein eben nicht den Charakter eines Scheins zusprechen. Auf die Wahrheit gehen, heißt, selbst in solchen Fällen noch die Wahrheit, die Wirklichkeit suchen, wo der äußere Schein so trügt, daß Wesenheiten von anderer Art, als der Mensch der Gegenwart es ist, sich in Menschengestalt verkörpern, in einem Teil vom Menschen, namentlich durch das Stoffwechselsystem; aber sie wirken dann auch im Rumpfsystem, im rhythmischen System und im Nerven-Sinnessystem. Es sind namentlich dreierlei Wesenheiten von dieser Art, die sich so durch das Stoffwechselsystem verschiedener Menschen des Westens verkörpern.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":569,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/200/1920-10-22/p010"}],"beads":[{"from":[11,12],"to":[9],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13,14],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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