{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-22/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Now you know that everything living within us in the form of pleasure and pain, of joy and suffering, is borne by the astral body. Everything which the astral body experiences during this life, particularly if experiences repeat themselves again and again, appears in the next life as a quality of the etheric body. Some object in this life which gives us pleasure and which we call up in our soul again and again, will produce in the next life a deep inclination and predilection for this particular object. But this inclination and predilection are character qualities, and their bearer is the etheric body. Consequently the effects produced by the astral body in a preceding life become qualities of the etheric body in the next life. What you repeatedly experienced during this life, appears in your next life as fundamental character. A melancholic temperament is due to the fact that in a preceding life the human being in question had many sad impressions throwing him again and again into a sad mood; as a result, the etheric body will have the inclination to sadness in the next life. The opposite may be found in people who obtain something good from everything in life, thus producing in their astral body joy and happiness and an uplifted mood; this will become a lasting characteristic of the etheric body in the next life producing a merry temperament. But if a human being courageously overcomes every sad experience in spite of the hard school in which life has placed him, his etheric body will be born in the next life with a choleric temperament. If we know all this, we can almost prepare our etheric body for our next life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Law of Karma","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-22","location":null,"word_count":286,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-22/p019","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. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Was Sie in diesem Leben wiederholt erleben, das kommt in Ihrem folgenden Leben als Grundcharakter. Ein melancholisches Temperament kommt daher, daß der Mensch im vorigen Leben viele traurige Eindrücke gehabt hat, die ihn immer wieder in eine traurige Stimmung versetzt haben; dadurch hat eben der nächste Ätherleib eine Neigung für eine traurige Stimmung. Umgekehrt ist es bei denen, die allem im Leben eine gute Seite abgewinnen, die dadurch in ihrem Astralleib Lust und Freude, frohe Erhebung erzeugt haben; das gibt im nächsten Leben eine bleibende Charaktereigenschaft des Ätherleibes und bewirkt ein heiteres Temperament. Wenn der Mensch aber, trotzdem ihn das Leben in eine harte Schule nimmt, all das Traurige kraftvoll überwindet, dann wird im nächsten Leben sein Ätherleib geboren mit einem cholerischen Temperament. 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