10. Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being

And now another longing arises in addition to the one already developed. The longing arises to compensate in a renewed earthly life for what the old earthly lives show in terms of deficiencies and imperfections in relation to the newly awakened consciousness. Now comes the time when the soul feels what it has to do in relation to the thoughts that have rushed away from it. It now receives the certain knowledge that awakens in the second half of life between death and new birth: your thought experiences have rushed ahead of you; you can only find them again by the detour of a new earthly life. And from this second experience, that of the old earthly life and the knowledge that you can only find your thoughts that have rushed ahead if you recall them in a new earthly life, arises the instinctive urge for a new earthly life. This cannot be judged according to the last earthly life. At the moment indicated, the soul naturally finds it natural to reunite with what has departed from it in terms of thoughts, and what it can only find through the detour of a new earthly life, where it also finds the opportunity to correct the imperfections and shortcomings it has encountered in view of its past earthly lives.