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This ego has developed through many incarnations; the ego, the “I,” of one human being is distinct from the ego of another and at the present stage of evolution gives rise to the force of attraction to the father. The etheric body attracts the human being to the folk, to the family; the astral body attracts him particularly to the mother; the “I” to the father. The whole descent to the new incarnation is guided in accordance with these principles.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-29/p010","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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True, this being who consists of “I,” astral body and etheric body is, from the moment of conception onwards, near the mother who bears within her the fertilised germ-cell; but it works in upon the germ-cell from outside. At about the third week the astral and etheric bodies take hold, as it were, of the germ-cell and now begin to participate in the work on the embryo; up to that time the development of the physical body proceeds without the influence of the astral body and etheric body. From then onwards these bodies participate in the development of the embryo and themselves influence the further elaboration of the human-germ. Therefore what was said about the etheric body holds good still more for the physical body and complete suitability is even less easy to obtain here. These significant facts shed light upon a great deal that happens in the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":165,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-29/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1966","book_title":"Theosophy of the Rosicrucian","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA099/English/RSP1966/19070529p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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There is a definite phrase for indicating this higher stage of development; it is said that such a man is not born in a different body, any more than it is said of the average human being that he receives a new body every seven years. Of a Master it is said: he is born in the same body; he uses it for hundreds, even thousands of years. This is the case with the vast majority of leading Individualities. An exception is formed by certain Masters who have their own special mission; with them the physical body remains, so that death does not occur for them at all. These are the Masters whose task it is to watch over and bring about the transition from one race to another.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":242,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-05-29/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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Das Ich war ja da in uralten Zeiten, als die Seele zum ersten Male herunterstieg aus dem Schoße der Gottheit in einen irdischen Leib. Dieses Ich hat sich durch viele Inkarnationen hindurch entwickelt. Das Ich des einen Menschen unterscheidet sich vom Ich des andern, und wie es jetzt ist, bildet es die besondere Anziehungskraft zum Vater. Der Ätherleib zieht hin zum Volke, zur Familie, der Astralleib zieht besonders hin zur Mutter, das Ich zum Vater. Darnach richtet sich das ganze Gebilde, das zur neuen Verkörperung hinunter will.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":187,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p010"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Es kann vorkommen, daß der Astralleib zu einem mütterlichen Teil hingezogen wird, das Ich aber nicht zu dem entsprechenden Vater will. In diesem Falle setzt es seine Wanderung fort, bis es ein passendes EIternpaar finder.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":35,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p011"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Im gegenwärtigen Entwickelungszyklus stellt das Ich das Element des Wollens, der Empfindungsimpulse dar; im astralen Leibe sind die Eigenschaften der Phantasie, die Eigenschaften des Denkens. Letztere wird daher die Mutter, wie man sagt, vererben und erstere der Vater. Und wir sehen so, daß die Individualität, die sich verkörpern will, durch ihre unbewußten Kräfte das Elternpaar aussucht, das ihr den physischen Leib geben soll.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":63,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p012"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Das hier Beschriebene spielt sich so ab, daß es im wesentlichen etwa bis zur dritten Woche nach der Empfängnis fertig ist. Zwar ist dieser Mensch, der aus Ich, Astralleib und Ätherleib besteht, durchaus vom Moment der Empfängnis an in der Nähe der Mutter, die den befruchteten Menschenkeim in sich hat, aber er wirkt von außen ein. In dieser Zeit, etwa in der dritten Woche, fängt dieser Astral- und Ätherleib gleichsam den Menschenkeim ab und beginnt nun mitzuarbeiten an dem Menschen. Bis dahin geht die Entwickelung des physischen Menschenleibes vor sich ohne den Einfluß von Astral- und Ätherleib; von da ab wirken sie an der Entwickelung des Kindes mit und gliedern selbst die weitere Ausgestaltung des Menschenkeimes. Wir sehen also, daß in bezug auf den physischen Leib in noch höherem Maße das gilt, was vom Ätherleibe gesagt wurde, daß hier noch weniger leicht ein Zusammenstimmen stattfinden kann. Diese wichtige Tatsache verbreitet Licht über vieles, was in der Welt vorgeht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p013"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wir haben bis jetzt den gewöhnlichen Menschen der Gegenwart in seiner normalen Entwickelung geschildert. Nicht ganz gilt das für einen Menschen, der in einer vorigen Inkarnation eine okkulte Entwickelung angefangen hat. Je höher er gekommen ist, desto früher liegt der Zeitpunkt, wo er selbst beginnt, seinen physischen Leib zu bearbeiten, um ihn dadurch geeigneter zu machen für die Mission, die er hier auf der Erde zu erfüllen hat. Je später er dazu kommt, den physischen Keim abzufangen, desto weniger wird er Herr werden über den physischen Leib. Bei höchstentwickelten menschlichen Individualitäten, die die Leiter und Führer des geistigen Teiles unserer Welt sind, finder solches Abfangen bereits bei der Empfängnis statt. Für sie geht nichts vor ohne ihr Zutun. Sie leiten ihren physischen Leib bis zum Tode und beginnen den neuen zu bearbeiten, sobald der erste Anstoß dazu gegeben ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":139,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p014"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Die Stoffe, die den physischen Leib zusammensetzen, ändern sich immerfort. Nach ungefähr sieben Jahren hat sich jedes Teilchen erneuert. Der Stoff wird ausgetauscht, die Form bleibt. Zwischen Geburt und Tod müssen wir den Stoff immer neu gebären, er ist das Wechselnde. Dasjenige, was man zwischen Geburt und Tod höherentwickelt über den Tod hinaus, das bleibt erhalten und bildet einen neuen Organismus.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":61,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p015"},{"locus":"GA 99/1907-05-29/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Was der Mensch zwischen Geburt und Tod unbewußt macht, tut der Eingeweihte bewußt vom Tode bis zur neuen Geburt: er bildet bewußt seinen neuen physischen Körper aus. Die Geburt ist daher für ihn nur ein radikales Ereignis. Er tauscht nur einmal, aber gründlich die Stoffe aus. Daher die große Ähnlichkeit der Gestalt solcher Individualitäten von einer Inkarnation zur andern, während bei wenig Entwickelten durchaus keine Ähnlichkeit zwischen den Gestalten ihrer verschiedenen Inkarnationen besteht. Je höher der Mensch sich entwikkelt, desto ähnlicher sind die zwei aufeinanderfolgenden Inkarnationen. Das kann man durchaus beobachten mit hellseherischem Blick. Es gibt einen ganz bestimmten Ausdruck für dieses Verhältnis, in das der Mensch auf höherer Stufe der Entwickelung kommt. Man sagt, er wird überhaupt nicht in einen anderen Körper geboren, so wenig wie man vom gewöhnlichen Menschen sagt, daß er alle sieben Jahre einen neuen Körper erhält. Man sagt vom Meister: er ist geboren in denselben Körper. — Er braucht ihn Jahrhunderte, ja selbst Jahrtausende. Das ist bei weitaus den meisten führenden Individualitäten der Fall. Eine Ausnahme machen gewisse Meister, die ihre ganz besondere Mission haben. Bei denen bleibt der physische Leib erhalten, so daß der Tod für sie überhaupt nicht eintritt. Das sind die Meister, die für den Übergang von einer Rasse zu einer andern zu sorgen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/99/1907-05-29/p016"}],"beads":[{"from":[9],"to":[9],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[10],"to":[10],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}