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The ball's Karma brings about the fact that the water in the second jug does not hiss and that the ball itself does not become much cooler.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Law of Karma","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-22","location":null,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-22/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070622p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. 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Es ist also das Karma der Kugel, daß sie in dem zweiten Kruge nicht mehr zischt und sich nicht abkühlt. — Und nun auch ein Beispiel aus dem Tierreich, woran Sie ersehen, daß die Folgezustände abhängen vom vorherigen Leben. Nehmen Sie die Tiere, die in die Höhlen von Kentucky eingewandert sind: durch die völlige Entziehung des Sonnenlichtes werden allmählich die Augen rückgebildet. Die Stoffe, die sonst für die Augen verwendet werden, wandern zu andern Organen, und dadurch verkümmern die Augen; die Tiere werden dadurch allmählich blind. Und nun ist es das Schicksal aller Nachkommen, blind geboren zu werden. Wären die Eltern nicht eingewandert in die dunklen Höhlen, so hätten die Nachkommen nicht das Schicksal, blind zu sein. 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