Tradition, already, was dead dead.

"Do many people still believe in the idea of reincarnation in Asia?"

After explaining what the enormous picture on the ceiling, in a great hall of Goetheanum, mean and Steiner's idea of reincarnation, she asked me, who happened to be the only Asian in the group.

"No, they are now out of fashion," I answered. Although Julius Evola and P. D. Ouspensky already observed it even in the early 20th century, westerners still think that the tradition remains in the East.