Reincarnation

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Reincarnation, rebirth or palingenesis (composed of Greekπάλιν pálin "again" and γένεσις génesis "generation, birth") means that man as an individual spiritual being descends several times in the course of its development to physical forms of existence, between which there is a purely spiritual existence. The destiny (SanskritKarma) in later earthly incarnations is essentially determined by the deeds in earlier earthly lives. According to the anthroposophical view, it is the immortal individual spirit, the I of man, that reincarnates and, apart from exceptional cases[1], not the largely perishable soul, which after death scatters to an imperishable remnant in the general astral world and has to be rebuilt anew and with different qualities for the next earthly incarnation. The personal immortality - the consciousness of the personality that lasts beyond death - was only attained by man through the consciousness soul, insofar as it is already directed towards the spiritual and thus already forms a unity with the immortal spirit self (Manas). The doctrine of the reincarnation of the spirit must therefore be strictly distinguished from the transmigration of the soul or metempsychosis. The body is subject to heredity, the soul to self-created destiny and the spirit continues to develop through successive incarnations.

Literature

References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.

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