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If iron filings are scattered on a piece of paper and a magnet is moved about underneath, the filings arrange themselves into forms and lines, following the forces of the magnet. In exactly the same way, the irregularly distributed astral substance is attracted and arranged according to the forces which are in the soul and correspond with what this soul has achieved in the previous life. Thus the human being himself gathers together his astral body. These human beings in the making, who to begin with have only an astral body, appear to the eye of the seer like bell forms opening downwards. 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What happened hitherto, up to the stage of the formation of the astral body, depended upon themselves, upon the forces they themselves had developed. But the forming of the etheric body does not, in the present phase of evolution, depend upon the human being alone; in respect of the forming of an etheric body, man is dependent upon beings external to himself. Consequently the human being always has a fitting astral body but there is not in every case perfect accordance between the astral body and the etheric and physical bodies; this is often the cause of maladjustment and lack of satisfaction in life. These incipient human beings whirl around space as they do because they are seeking for suitable parents, parents who will afford the best possible opportunity of receiving an etheric and a physical nature befitting the astral being.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-28/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-28/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-28/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Co-operating in this search are Beings who member the etheric body to the astral body and whose rank is similar to that of the Folk-Spirits. The Folk-Spirit is not the intangible abstraction it is usually considered to be. A Folk-Spirit is as real to the eye of the seer as our soul that is incarnate in our body. A whole people, although it has not a common physical body, has a common astral body and the rudiments of a common etheric body. This lives within a kind of astral cloud and is the “body” of the Folk-Spirit. Of this nature are the Beings who guide the ether-formations around the human being who is thus no longer entirely under his own control.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-28/p024","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1907-05-28","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-28/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-28/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":258,"en_words":292,"ratio":1.13,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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When the human being passes into his etheric body but has not yet acquired his physical body—it is a brief moment but of supreme importance—he has a pre-vision of his coming life, not in all its details but only as a survey over what his future life has in store for him. He can say to himself (but he forgets it when he actually incarnates) that he has a happy or an unhappy life in front of him. It may happen, if a human being has had many unfortunate experiences in a previous life, that he now gets a shock and is hesitant to enter into the physical body. The result of this may be that he does not come right down into the physical body and so the connection between the several bodies is not fully established. This produces idiocy in the coming life; it is not always the cause of idiocy, but frequently so. The soul rebels, as it were, against physical embodiment. Such a human being cannot make right use of his brain because he is not properly incarnate in it. He can only use his physical instrument aright when he allows himself to be born into it in the full and proper sense. Whereas in other circumstances the etheric body extends only slightly beyond the physical body, in the case of idiots portions of the etheric body are often to be seen as an etheric sheen extending far beyond the head. 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Dann zieht der Erdkreis ihn wieder an.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":59,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-28/p020"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-28/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Das erste, was der Mensch antrifft, wenn er aus dem Devachan herabkommt, ist das astralische Gebiet, in der Rosenkreuzer-Theosophie die elementare Welt genannt. Die gibt ihm einen neuen Astralleib. Wenn man auf ein Papier Eisenfeilspäne streut und unterhalb desselben einen Magneten bewegt, dann bilden sich Formen und Linien nach den Kräften des Magneten; und genau so wird die astrale Substanz, die unregelmäßig verteilt ist, herangezogen und geordnet nach den Kräften, die in der Seele sind und dem entsprechen, was diese Seele im früheren Leben erarbeitet hat. So gruppiert sich der Mensch selbst seinen Astralleib. Diese werdenden Menschen, die nur erst einen Astralleib haben, sieht der Seher als Wesen, die ausschauen wie eine nach unten sich öffnende Glockenform. Sie schießen mit riesiger Geschwindigkeit durch den Astralplan. Kaum vorstellen kann man sich die Geschwindigkeit, mit der sie den Raum durchschwirren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":138,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-28/p021"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-28/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Jetzt müssen diese werdenden Menschen einen Ätherleib und einen physischen Leib erhalten. Was bisher geschehen ist bis zum Aufbau des Astralleibes, hing von ihnen selbst ab, je nach den Kräften, die sie selbst entwickelt haben. Wie aber der Ätherleib sich bildet, das hängt nicht allein vom Menschen ab in dem gegenwärtigen Entwickelungslauf, sondern in bezug auf diese Bildung ist der Mensch von äußeren Wesen abhängig. Darum hat der Mensch zwar immer einen passenden Astralleib; es ist aber nicht immer der Fall, daß dieser Astralleib ganz in den Ätherund physischen Leib hineinpaßt. Daher oft die Disharmonie und Unzufriedenheit im Leben. Daß die werdenden Menschen so herumschwirren, geschieht namentlich deshalb, weil sie ein passendes Elternpaar suchen, das ihnen die beste Gelegenheit gibt, eine zur Astralwesenheit stimmende ÄÄther- und physische Körperlichkeit zu bekommen. Eskann immer nur das relativ beste und passende Elternpaar sein, das ihnen diese gibt. Bei diesem Suchen wirken Wesenheiten, die den Ätherleib an den astralischen Leib angliedern und die ähnlich dem sind, was man oft Volksgeister nennt. Das ist nicht dieses unfaßbare Abstraktum, als was der Volksgeist gewöhnlich angesehen wird; es ist für den geistigen Beobachter der Welt etwas so Wirkliches wie unsere Seele, die in unserem Leibe verkörpert ist. So hat ein ganzes Volk gemeinschaftlich zwar nicht einen physischen Leib, wohl aber einen Astralleib und die Ansätze zu einem Ätherleibe. Es lebt wie in einer astralischen Wolke, und das ist der Leib für den Volksgeist. Das sind die Lenker der Ätherbildungen um den Menschen herum, und so hat der Mensch sich nicht mehr selbst in der Gewalt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-28/p022"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-28/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Nun kommt ein außerordentlich wichtiger Moment, ebenso wichtig wie der Moment nach dem Tode, wo man sein ganzes vergangenes Leben als Erinnerungsbild sieht. Wenn der Mensch in seinen Ätherleib hineinschlüpft und noch nicht den physischen Leib hat — es ist dies nur ein kurzer Moment, aber von höchster Wichtigkeit —, da hat er eine Vorschau auf das nächste Leben; nicht auf alle Einzelheiten, es ist nur ein Überblick über all das, was ihm bevorsteht im künftigen Leben. Da kann er sich sagen — er vergißt es wieder bei der Einkörperung —, er hat vor sich ein glückliches oder ein unglückliches Leben. Nun kommt es vor, wenn ein Mensch viele schlimme Erfahrungen im früheren Leben gemacht hat, daß er einen Schock bekommt und nicht hinein will in den physischen Leib. Das kann bewirken, daß er wirklich nicht ganz hineinrückt in denselben und so die Verbindung nicht ganz hergestellt ist zwischen den verschiedenen Leibern. Das ergibt dann Idioten in diesem Leben. Es ist das nicht immer der Grund zur Idiotie, doch häufig. Die Seele sträubt sich gleichsam, physisch verkörpert zu werden. Ein solcher Mensch kann sein Gehirn nicht richtig gebrauchen, weil er nicht richtig hineingeschaltet ist. Nur wenn der Mensch sich richtig hineingebären läßt in sein physisches Werkzeug, kann er es richtig gebrauchen. Während der Ätherleib sonst nur ganz schwach hinausragt, kann man bei den Idioten oft Teile des Ätherleibes wie einen weit über den Kopf hinausragenden ätherischen Lichtschein sehen. 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