Reincarnation and Karma

Animals already have the astral body. They experience pleasure, joy, and pain. But what is present in its highest form in the leaders of humanity and in its potential in all human beings is the eternal core of the human being, which progresses from incarnation to incarnation. When a human being dies, what remains and what passes away? The physical body, what can be seen with the eyes and touched with the hands, is given back to the earth. The etheric body dissolves into the general life ether, shortly after we have passed through death. The third is the astral body, that on which the human being has already worked. Take such a soul, which lives in a cultured human being, and you have the inner core of being and then the sum of the instincts and passions. In the savage, at the first stage of incarnation, Atma, Buddhi, and Manas have worked little on the instincts. Therefore, they are still animalistic. What does the spiritual core of the being do? It works continuously to refine the animalistic passions. This is how the civilized human being differs from the savage: the astral body is no longer animalistic. Then the human being dies and enters the spiritual-soul world. There one sees what was still in him as an instinct from his first incarnation. When the human being enters incarnation for the first time, the animal passions are unpurified. He consumes his fellow human beings and so on. Then the consequences arise. There he begins to understand something in the crudest way. Let us take the radical case that he says to himself, if I can consume the other, the other can also consume me. He understands that he too can perhaps be consumed. At the last moment, it becomes clear to him where this leads, and his first moral consciousness dawns within him, very dimly. He then purifies his instinct through the judgment he has formed, and this judgment comes from the core of his spiritual being. What he has formed as a judgment appears as a predisposition in his second incarnation. He has become a little nobler. And now he purifies his passions and instincts more and more. He elevates them from incarnation to incarnation. This is what really happens when a person dies. The physical body is returned to the earth, the etheric body dissolves into the life ether. What happens to the person now, what occurs?