Painting:'Sun Being', by  Chris Manvell

Re-embodiment.

In the past it was said by way of consolation that Death makes all men equal. That feeling, which died out of men's minds, now comes back to us again as a riper insight. We men wander together through our existence for thousands of years. I may probably be meeting the man who is standing before me, not for the first time, probably not for the last. That which he outwardly wears is a disguise. His true value may raise him above me, not only inwardly now, but later also outwardly. The king is king for this time, the beggar is now a beggar. Out of such insight into life, if it burns with full power and warmth in the soul, a new deep human feeling must grow. Is not our age, this very age of social study, asking that humanity of feeling shall be established anew on a more sublime foundation? It is easy to preach this humaneness; it is hard to establish it; without a new deep insight it cannot be maintained, still less brought to life again. Every time we meet anyone, we must look at the person, at the ego which is before us, which is travelling through its incarnations. The world is waiting for a thought, for a truth which will re-establish its humaneness'.
~ Rudolf Steiner.