"Not only do we pass through the gate of death as immortal beings,
we also enter through the gate of birth as unborn beings. We need
the term unbornness, as well as the term immortality, to encompass
the whole human being." (Rudolf Steiner) As anyone who has had a
child knows, newborns enter the earthly world as beings different
from their parents. They arrive with their own individuality,
being, and history. From the beginning, they manifest an essential
dignity and a unique "I," which they clearly brought with them from
the spiritual world. This unborn life of a person's higher
individuality guides the whole process of incarnation. It frames
our lives, but we fail to recognize this because of a single-minded
focus on immortality, or life-after-death, which makes us forget
the reality of our "unbornness." This unbornness extends not only
from conception to birth, but also includes the whole existence and
history of one's "I" in its long journey from the spiritual world
to Earth. Unbornness-the other side of eternity-allows us to
experience the fact that birth is just as great a mystery as is
death. In a new and striking way, unbornness poses the mystery of
our human task on Earth. It was one of Rudolf Steiner's great gifts
that he returned the concept of unbornness to human consciousness
and language. In this brief, stunning, and moving, almost poetic
work, Peter Selg gathers the key elements and images needed to
begin an understanding of-and wonder at-the vast scope of our
unbornness. Drawing on and expanding on Steiner's work, as well as
Raphael's Sistine Madonna and the poems of Nelly Sachs and Rainer
Maria Rilke, Selg unveils this deepest mystery of human existence.
After reading it, one will never look at a child or another human
being in the same way again. Life after death life before birth;
only by knowing both do we know eternity. (Rudolf Steiner)
Unbornness is a translation of Ungeborenheit: Die Praexistenz des
Menschen und der Weg zur Geburt (Verlag Ita Wegman Institut, 2009).
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