15. On the use of the Etheric and Astral Bodies of Important Personalities. The Atlantean Mysteries

24-25. On the peculiar effect of the re-embodiment of personalities. The procedure of reincarnation is not as simple as it is usually described. Various possibilities can occur. Not only the etheric body, but also the astral body of a person can be preserved and incorporated into a later person. It can therefore also be made possible through this trick of the initiates that the etheric body of an earlier important man is incorporated into a later man, whereby the characteristics of the etheric body, memory and so on, are combined with a new ego and a new astral body and often work in this new composition in an apparently quite different way. In this way, the astral body can also be preserved and later incorporated. However, correct reincarnation only occurs when the ego is incarnated again in the new body. These possibilities have given rise to many errors, both among seers who regarded these incomplete incarnations as complete incarnations, and among people who remember their incarnation as the incarnation of the bearers of these bodies as a result of an incorporated etheric or astral body.