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Therefore, that which goes beyond the individual incarnation can never be grasped by any thought-experience, no matter how refined, even if it rises to the highest levels. This is the reason why Fichte's way of looking at things, and also that of his contemporaries who followed in his footsteps, could not bring them to a realization of the laws of reincarnation and karma. Although various indications can be found in the works of the thinkers of this epoch, they arise more out of a general feeling than out of a necessary organic connection with their thought-structures. It may be said that the mission of these personalities in the history of thought was to present pure thought experiences as they can take place within an incarnation, excluding everything that reaches beyond this one embodiment of the human being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"28. Theosophy in Germany a Hundred Years Ago","site_heading":null,"date":"1906-06-04","location":null,"word_count":244,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/250/1906-06-04/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The History of the German Section of the Theosophical Society 1902-1913","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA250/English/SOL2024/19060604s01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Die geistige Anschauung steigert sich, das Wahrnehmungsvermögen erweitert sich, wenn eine Individualität, die in einer Inkarnation hoch stand, wieder verkörpert wird, die Logik des Denkens aber bleibt dieselbe auch für eine höhere Bewusstseinsstufe. Daher kann dasjenige, was über die einzelne Inkarnation hinausgeht, auch niemals durch ein noch so feines Gedanken-Erlebnis erfasst werden, selbst wenn sich dieses zu den höchsten Stufen erhebt. Darin ist der Grund zu suchen, warum die Betrachtungsart Fichtes und auch diejenige seiner Zeitgenossen, welche in seinen Bahnen wandelten, sich nicht zur Erkenntnis der Gesetze von Reinkarnation und Karma durchringen konnten. Wenn auch verschiedene Hinweise bei den Denkern dieser Epoche zu finden sind: Sie gehen mehr aus einem allgemeinen Gefühle hervor und stehen nicht in einem notwendigen organischen Zusammenhang mit ihren Gedankengebäuden. 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