19. The Course of Human Development from the Standpoint of Occult Science
GA 68d/1908-02-06/p044
·1908-02-06
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But there is still another birth; this occurs because, even though the human being has freed his etheric body from external influences when his teeth change, for example, he is still surrounded by a protective astral mother-shell, as it were, around the third limb of his being, and this continues until sexual maturity.
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