The idea of reincarnation shows us
the path of development through the ages
of time and space, who from a certain moment on
- designated in the Bible as the Fall of Man -
was endowed with freedom to choose good or evil,
and who had the opportunity in ever new human incarnations,
with extensive intervening periods
for purification, rest and inner development,
to work its way upward to the Christ, or downward to the anti-Christ.
-Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914)
German Author and Poet