10. Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being

When a person passes through the gate of death, they belong to a world that is accessible only to spiritual research, spiritual research in the sense in which it has been presented in the lectures given here so far. This spiritual research can gain knowledge that can only be attained by the soul that knows itself to be free of the body. We have often discussed the methods by which the human soul actually comes to gain knowledge not only by using their body and senses to come into contact with the outside world, but by actually stepping out of their body, so that this body stands outside them, just as any other external object stands outside them, and that they experience themselves in separation from their body, in a spiritual environment. How the soul of the spiritual researcher comes to do this has often been discussed; and in this way it enters the world that human beings enter when they pass through the gate of death. And now, without further preparation, I will recount what the spiritual researcher has to say about human life between death and rebirth, based on the methods that have long been discussed here.