XVII. What is seen on looking back into Man's previous Lives between Death and the new Birth (I)

That Man can assume an upright posture under earthly conditions of gravitation; that he can preserve his balance amidst them, whilst moving freely; that he can release his arms and hands from the weight of gravitation, and use them in freedom—all this and much else, which lies inside, but yet is Form, Man owes to the creation of the Archai Hierarchy. It was all prepared by them beforehand in the life which, even for this early period, may be called life between death and new birth. All was there being prepared in such a way that in the third period—namely our present age—Man himself has the ability, during this life between death and new birth, to take part in working out this Form for his coming life on Earth.