17. Reincarnation

Let us take the spirits of the fifth sub-race of the Atlanteans, and the first, second, third and fourth sub-races of the Aryans, that is, five spirits which are much higher in their development than man. Because they are much higher, they incarnate somewhat differently. With them the course of life is no longer interrupted by birth and death. Man will later also come into such kinds of incarnation. Such a being does not die, but his body becomes weaker and weaker, and while it becomes weaker, a second one builds up. In the case of man, it is intermittent cycles that he has to go through. The racial spirit builds a second, then a third [body] when the previous one is in decay. The body consists of the individuals of a race. In this process, one race does not die so suddenly, but it decays very gradually, while the other one rises. This is how the racial spirit leads across. In man there is an alternation between the life on earth and the life in Devachan. In the center of the Devachan life the outer earthly life explains itself; therefore also in the center between the incarnations the explanation will have to be fetched for that which incarnates itself. This is indeed also the case with the race spirit. The race spirit will likewise find its explanation through certain points. [This is to occupy us now.