Rudolf Steiner Audio CW 26 Michael Mystery: Letter 17: What is seen on looking back into Man's previous Lives between Death and new Birth (I) by Rudolf Steiner
Aug 11, 2025
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Self-Consciousness Shapes Postmortem Life
- Man's present self-consciousness carries through death and shapes postmortem life in the spiritual world.
- In earlier ages this self-consciousness was weaker, so human willing was still essentially the gods' willing.
Human Form As Spiritual Imagination
- Human form originated as a spiritual imagination worked out by divine hierarchies before physical embodiment.
- The archai shaped an etheric form that contained forces for later physical development on earth.
Collective Divine Will Creates Individuality
- The human individuality is formed by the combined will of an entire hierarchy of divine beings, not a single spirit.
- Earlier 'pre-men' existed with one-sided forms which the hierarchies integrated into the full human form.