Star of Man

Behind the stars again am I.
I myself am the world sphinx,
The vast universe only was a path
for my soul to itself.

Christian Morgenstern

The star of man has great significance for life between death and new birth. A certain star, a fixed star, or more precisely a certain star region, is the spiritual home of the human being.

„Every human being has his star, which is decisive for what he works out between death and a new birth, and he comes from the direction of a certain star. - So that we can already take into our minds the idea: If we look at the whole human race that inhabits the earth, we find, if we look around here on earth and go through the continents, that these continents are populated by the people who are presently incarnated. The other people - where do we find them in the universe? Where do we have to look in the universe if we want to turn our soul's gaze towards them after they have spent a certain amount of time there after passing through the gate of death? We look in the right directions when we look towards the starry sky. These are the souls - at least these are the directions that let us find the souls - that are between death and a new birth. We survey the whole human race that inhabits the earth when we look up and down.

Only those who are on the way there or on the way hence are found in the planetary region. But we cannot speak of the midnight hour of existence between death and a new birth without thinking of a star which then, but taking into account what I have said about star beings, man inhabits between death and a new birth.“ (Lit.:GA 237, p. 46f)

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Erdensterben und Weltenleben. Anthroposophische Lebensgaben. Bewußtseins-Notwendigkeiten für Gegenwart und Zukunft, GA 181 (1991), Siebenter Vortrag, Berlin, 26. März 1918 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Esoterische Betrachtungen karmischer Zusammenhänge. Dritter Band. Die karmischen Zusammenhänge der anthroposophischen Bewegung, GA 237, Dritter Vortrag, Dornach, 6. Juli 1924 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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