{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 100/1907-06-22/p027","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But let us get back to the pestilence. If you wish to explain the deeper cause of this disease spiritually, you must look back upon a significant historical event. Upon the great masses of peoples coming from the East, who overflowed Europe, bringing with them fear and terror. These Asiatic masses were people who had remained behind at the ancient Atlantean stage, and were consequently decadent races. They were races whose decadence had the character of putrefaction, which was particularly strong in their astral body. Had they invaded Europe without bringing s0 much terror and fear to the Europeans, nothing would have happened. But these hordes brought with them fear, terror and and alarm, whole nations in Europe experienced this state of fear and terror. Now the putrid substance of the Huns' astral bodies mixed with the terror-stricken astral bodies of the peoples whom they had invaded. The degenerated astral bodies of these Asiatic hordes unloaded their bad substances on the terror-stricken astral bodies of the Europeans, and this putrid substance was the cause of the pestilence, the physical effects of which appeared later on.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The Law of Karma","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-22","location":null,"word_count":185,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-22/p027","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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Sie müssen in diesem Falle, wenn Sie geistig die tiefere Ursache dieser Krankheit erklären wollen, zurückblicken auf ein bedeutsames historisches Ereignis: auf das Ereignis, als von Osten her große Völkermassen über Europa hinwegstürmten und dieses Europa in Furcht und Schrecken setzten. Diese asiatischen Scharen waren Völker, die auf der alten Atlantierstufe stehengeblieben und daher im Niedergang begriffen waren, also Völker, die den Niedergangs-,sozusagen den Fäulnischarakter besonders stark in ihrem Astralleib hatten. Wären diese Völkerschaften über Europa herübergestürmt, ohne daß die Europäer sich erregt oder erschreckt hätten, dann wäre nichts passiert. So aber verursachten diese Horden Angst und Schrecken und Bestürzung; ganze Völkerschaften in Europa erlebten diese Angstund Schreckenszustände. Und nun mischte sich der faule Astralstoff der Hunnen mit den von Angst und Furcht und Grauen durchwühlten Astralleibern der überfallenen Völker. Die degenerierten Astralleiber der asiatischen Stämme Juden ihre schlechten Stoffe auf diese furchtdurchwühlten Astralleiber der Europäer ab, und diese Fäulnisstoffe bewirkten eben, daß später die physische Wirkung der Krankheit auftrat. Das ist in Wahrheit die tiefe geistige Ursache des Aussatzes im Mittelalter. Es tritt also etwas, was geistig verursacht ist, in späterer Zeit im physischen Körper auf. Nur wer dieses Gesetz von Karma kennt und es zu durchschauen vermag, ist dazu berufen, in den Geschichtsverlauf tätig einzugreifen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":211,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/100/1907-06-22/p023"}],"english":["GA 100/1907-06-22/p027","GA 100/1907-06-22/p028"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":211,"en_words":212,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":4787,"original_word_count":4729,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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