 Steiner held that though the human being generally goes through a series of repeated earth lives, the spiritual being Christ incarnated only once in a physical body.Christ, he said, would reappear in "the etheric" — the realm that lives between people and in community life — not as a physical individual.Steiner and the majority of the German-speaking Theosophists broke away to found a new group, the Anthroposophical Society, at the end of 1912.