Category:Incarnation

Incarnation means that a spiritual being becomes flesh as a bodily physical being. In this process, the I, his spiritual core, step by step completely permeates all the members (astral body, etheric body, physical body) that serve him for embodiment. Spirit and soul are then no longer to be understood as entities separate from the body, but appear directly as a moving physical form and are not mere "inhabitants" of the body, as suggested, for example, by the Cartesian dualism of res extensa and res cogitans. The nature of the earthly embodied human being can only be understood through a natural and at the same time spiritual view, such as Goethe initially cultivated in his scientific studies, which Rudolf Steiner took up as a young man and later deepened more and more through spiritual science.