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The father is yet again a different individuality, and another incarnates itself in the son. These three individualities have absolutely nothing directly to do with the inheritance of musical talent. Musical talent is transmitted purely within physical heredity. The question of physical heredity is superficially resolved when we realize that man's musical gift depends on a special configuration of the ear. All musical talent is meaningless if a person does not have a musical ear; the ear must be specially adapted for this talent. This purely bodily basis for musical talent is handed down from generation to generation. We thus have a musical son, father, and grandfather, all of whom had musical ears. 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Even if the individual's spiritual sojourn perhaps has not been completed and he might have remained another 200 years in Devachan, if a suitable physical body is available on the physical plane, he may incarnate now. Chances are that the individuality will make up the 200 years during his next time in Devachan by remaining there that much longer. Such laws lie at the basis of incarnation, which depends not only on the individuality ready for incarnation but also on the force of attraction being exerted from below. When Germany needed a Bismarck, a suitable individual had to incarnate, because the circumstance drew him down to the physical plane. 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Gegen den Großvater ist der Vater wieder eine andere Individualität; im Sohn verkörperte sich wieder eine andere Individualität. Diese drei Individualitäten haben mit der Vererbung des musikalischen Talentes unmittelbar gar nichts zu tun. Rein innerhalb der physischen Vererbung ist die Übertragung des musikalischen Talentes. Diese Frage der physischen Vererbung beantwortet sich oberflächlich, wenn wir uns klarmachen, daß des Menschen Begabung für die Musik abhängig ist von einer Einrichtung des Ohres. Alle musikalische Begabung würde nichts bedeuten, wenn der Betreffende nicht ein musikalisches Ohr hätte; das Ohr muß für diese Begabung besonders eingerichtet sein. Und diese rein körperliche Grundlage für das musikalische Talent ist es, die sich vererbt von Generation zu Generation. Wir haben so einen musikalischen Sohn und Vater und Großvater, die alle musikalische Ohren hatten. Wie sich die physischen Formen des Körpers, zum Beispiel die der Nase, von einer Generation zur anderen vererben, so auch die Strukturverhältnisse des Ohres.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":184,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/283/1906-11-26/p004"},{"locus":"GA 283/1906-11-26/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Nehmen wir an, wir hätten es mit einer Reihe von Individualitäten zu tun, die sich eben in der geistigen Welt befinden und die mit sich bringen aus der vorhergehenden Inkarnation die Anlage zur Musik, die sich nun auf dem physischen Plane ausleben will. Was würde die Anlage bedeuten, wenn die Individualitäten sich nicht in Körpern inkarnieren könnten, die ein musikalisches Ohr haben? Es würden dann diese Individualitäten durch das Leben hindurchgehen, und diese Fähigkeit müßte stumm, unausgebildet bleiben. Es ist also selbstverständlich, daß diese Individualitäten sich hingezogen fühlen werden zu einer Familie mit musikalischem Ohr, mit einer körperlichen Anlage, die es der Individualität ermöglicht, sich auszuleben. Die Familie unten auf dem physischen Plane übt eine Anziehungskraft aus für die Individualität oben im Devachan. Vielleicht würde die Individualität noch zweihundert Jahre oder länger im Devachan verbleiben; vielleicht ist ihre Devachanzeit noch nicht ganz abgelaufen. Aber weil auf dem physischen Plan ein geeigneter physischer Leib ist, wird sich die Individualität jetzt verkörpern, wo sie noch hätte zweihundert Jahre im Devachan bleiben können, und sie wird vielleicht bei der nächsten Devachanzeit diese Zeit nachholen und dann um so viel länger in der geistigen Welt verweilen. Solche Regeln liegen der Verkörperung zugrunde. Sie hängt nicht allein davon ab, ob die Individualität oben zur Verkörperung drängt, sondern auch davon, was für eine Anziehungskraft von unten ausgeübt wird. Als das deutsche Land einen Bismarck nötig hatte, mußte sich eine passende Individualität verkörpern, weil die Verhältnisse sie auf den physischen Plan herabzogen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/283/1906-11-26/p005"},{"locus":"GA 283/1906-11-26/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"So kann die Zeit oben in der geistigen Welt verkürzt oder verlängert werden, je nach den Verhältnissen, die unten auf der Erde sind, und die zur Wiederverkörperung drängen oder nicht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":30,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/283/1906-11-26/p006"}],"beads":[{"from":[4],"to":[4],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[5],"to":[5,6],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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