25. Man, Woman and Child from the Point of View of the Occult
GA 68d/1908-11-18/p079
·1908-11-18
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So you have to distinguish between what is individual and what is inherited from father and mother. We see this well in families where there are many children: What they have inherited from their father and mother appears in all children, but above all, we can observe something special and individual in each child, something that the spirit itself has brought with it, which is not in the father or mother, but which was already there in the human being before birth.
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