{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"We will take a concrete example of this, namely the relationship between mother and child. Is there a relationship between them which endures? There is indeed and moreover a much more intimate, much firmer relationship than can ever be established here on earth. Mother-love, to begin with, is a kind of natural-instinct, it has something of an animal-like character. As the child grows up this relationship becomes a moral, ethical spiritual one. When mother and child learn to think together, when they share experiences in common, natural instinct with draws more and more into the background; it has merely provided the opportunity for the forging of that beautiful bond of union which is present in the very highest sense in the mother's love for the child and the child's love for the mother. The mutual understanding and love which unfolds here continues on into the regions of the spiritual world, even although, as the result of the one dying earlier, the other seems for a time to be separated from the dead. After this period has passed, the link that was on earth is equally vital and intimate. The two are together, only all the purely natural, animal instincts must have been outlived. The feelings and thoughts which weave between one soul and another on earth are not hindered in yonder world by the encasements that exist here. Devachan actually assumes a particular appearance and structure as a result of the relationships that are woven here on earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"V. Man's Communal Life Between Death and a New Birth. 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Wenn Mutter und Kind gemeinschaftlich denken lernen, gemeinsame Empfindungen haben, dann tritt der Naturinstinkt immer mehr zurück; er hat nur die Gelegenheit gegeben, daß sich das schöne Band schlingen konnte, das Mutterliebe und Kindesliebe im höchsten Sinne in sich begreift. Was da an gegenseitigem Verstehen, an inniger Liebe sich entwickelt, das setzt sich auch fort bis in die Regionen der geistigen Gebiete, wenn auch dadurch, daß der eine Teil früher stirbt als der andere, der Zurückbleibende eine gewisse Zeit scheinbar abgetrennt ist von dem Gestorbenen. Nach diesem Zeitabschnitt ist das Band, das sich hier zusammengesponnen hat, ein ebenso lebhaftes und inniges; man ist beieinander, nur all die animalischen, rein natürlichen Instinkte müssen erst abgestreift werden. Was sich als Seelengefühl, als Seelengedanke von einem Wesen zum andern hier auf der Erde spinnt, das ist droben nicht gehemmt durch die Schranken, die hier vorhanden sind. 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