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This soul also underwent development, and every spiritual researcher looks back on this as well, and saw man and woman united in one before the two genders appeared to us in the outside world. The spirit of man, the spirit that was not yet sexual, united both sexes within itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"32. 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Weiter in noch fernerer Vergangenheit, da würden wir kommen in die Entwicklungslinie des geistigen Menschenkernes hinauf zu dem Geist selbst. Und auch in jenen alten Zeiten hat das alte Bewusstsein zurückgeblickt auf den Zeitpunkt, wo die Seele und der Geist noch vereinigt waren mit der göttlichen Urgeistigkeit; innerhalb dieser war unser geistig-seelischer Menschenvorfahr. Das, was Sie heute Ihr Ich nennen, Ihre intimste innerliche Wesenheit, das war damals, als es noch nicht sich vereinigt hatte mit Ihrem Leib, das war damals in jener göttlichen Urwesenheit darin. Da war sie vor allen Dingen in einem Zustand, den wir bezeichnen müssen als den der Geschlechtslosigkeit. Geist und Seele haben kein Geschlecht. Sie haben ein Geschlecht dadurch, dass Sie einen geschlechtsmäßig gebildeten Leib anziehen, aber Ihr innerstes Wesen ist nicht geschlechtlich. 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