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They could not enter into themselves in their present incarnation but carried over from their previous life what had then been experienced as outer nature observation in an attitude of secluded, often sectarian religiosity. This exists in the denial of matter with Mrs *Eddy*, with the Scientologists and so on. Everything which appears in the outer world can verify these things, if we consider them with enough impartiality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-12","location":null,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p018","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Hanna von Maltitz","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":"Spiritual Science, History, Reincarnation, Culture, Examples","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/Singles/19201212p02.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/202/1920-12-12/p018"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-12/p018","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Die ganze amerikanische Kultur, die eine materialistische Nuance hat, geht im wesentlichen daraus hervor, daß da Seelen erscheinen, die eigentlich orientalische Seelen waren in der Zeit, die ich charakterisiert habe, und die nun untertauchen in Leiber so, daß ihnen diese Leiblichkeit fremd ist, daß sie sich, ich möchte sagen, mit ihren damals schon sehr in der Dekadenz befindlichen Begriffen hineinsaugen in die Leiblichkeit, daß sie die Leiblichkeit nicht verstehen, sondern sie ziemlich primitiv materialistisch nehmen, mehr oder weniger eben an dem Menschen vorbeigehen, der ihnen fremd wird dadurch, daß sie im grunde genommen nach starken Abstraktionen gestrebt haben in ihrem vorigen Erdenleben. Sie können sich nicht hineinfinden in die gegenwärtige Inkarnation, tragen aber aus ihrem vorigen Erdenleben all das herauf, was dann lebt in der von der äußeren Naturbetrachtung abgesonderten, oftmals sektiererischen Religiosität. Das lebt sogar in der Leugnung der Materie bei der Mrs. Eddy, bei den Scientisten und so weiter. 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