{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025-p036","extent":"range","passage_number":25,"through":36,"paragraph_count":12,"first_locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025","last_locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"AP1954","book_title":"The Deed of Christ and the Opposing Spiritual Powers","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA107/English/AP1954/19090101p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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The essential point is that, fundamentally speaking, Lucifer had brought man under the influence of the powers connected with air and water *only*; whereas it was Ahriman-Mephistopheles who has subjected him to the influence of far more deadly powers and the civilizations immediately to come will see the appearance of many things connected with Ahriman's influence. Through this influence the seeker for the spirit who does not stand upon firm and sure foundations can readily fall prey to the most terrible illusion and deception. For Ahriman is a spirit who sets out to spread deception as to the true nature of the sense-world, especially as an expression of the spiritual world. When a man has a tendency to abnormal, somnambulistic states or through certain wrongful training awakens occult forces whereby egoism is intensified, then Ahriman or Mephistopheles has a ready influence precisely upon these occult forces, an influence that can soon become overwhelmingly powerful. Whereas Lucifer's influence can only bring it about that what confronts a man from the spiritual world (and this applies also to one who is receiving wrongful training) appears to him as an *astral* form visible to the astral body, the manifestations due to the influence of Ahriman are brought to light in that the evil influences on the physical body press through into the etheric body and then become visible as *phantoms*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":238,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p025","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":264,"en_words":238,"ratio":0.9,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Lucifer's influences can never become as evil as the influences of Ahriman and of those Beings who are connected with the powers of fire. The influence of Ahriman or Mephistopheles can bring it about that in order to attain occult knowledge a man is induced, for example, to undertake certain measures with his physical body. The method that consists in the use and misuse of the physical body is the most evil that can possibly be applied for the purpose of acquiring occult powers. It is a fact that in certain school of black magic such practices are taught in abundance. One of the most terrible perversions to which man may be subject occurs when the forces of the physical body are taken as the starting-point for occult training.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":151,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p026","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 107/1909-01-01/p021"],"length_check":{"de_words":131,"en_words":151,"ratio":1.15,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Centers of black magic and its forces originated from these influences and have persisted to this day.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":161,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p027","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p022","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p022"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":168,"en_words":161,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Ahriman himself is no mirage—far from it! But what is conjured before men's eyes of spirit under his influence—that is mirage, illusion. When a man's desires and passions flow along evil paths and at the same time he lends himself in any way to occult practices, then the occult forces which are awakened penetrate into the etheric body and the most evil powers of corruption appear among the illusory images which may themselves often be majestic, awe-inspiring. 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It has already been indicated that these are spiritual Beings who detached themselves from the evolution of the earth *before* the separation of the sun.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p029","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p024","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p024"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":140,"en_words":133,"ratio":0.95,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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It was a good, wisely led education of mankind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":128,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p030","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p025"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":129,"en_words":128,"ratio":0.99,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Dorothy S. 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But karma operates through every realm of existence and there are things in the karma of mankind, in the karma of a people, of a community or other group of human beings, which must be regarded as collective karma, so that in certain circumstances the individual can be drawn into the sway of the collective karma. It will not always be easy for one who cannot penetrate to the root of the matter to discern exactly where the influences of the powers concerned lie in the case of human beings overtaken by such a destiny. An individual within some community may well be entirely guiltless as far as his own karma is concerned; but because he stands within a field of collective karma, calamity may befall him. 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A terrible fate may befall a whole group of human beings; the reason why just this group should suffer such a destiny is not to be discovered. Someone who might be capable of investigating the karma of an individual will in certain circumstances be unable to find anything at all that could have led to this tragic fate, for the threads of karma are extremely complicated. The cause of such karmic happenings may lie far, far away—but it is connected with these people nevertheless. And it may be that the whole group, while guiltless, has been overtaken by some collective karma which could not overtake those immediately guilty, because circumstances did not make this possible. In such cases the only thing that can be said is this: In the total karma of an individual, everything is ultimately balanced out, including what befalls him without guilt on his part; it is all inscribed in his karma and compensation in the fullest sense will be made in future time.—Therefore in considering the law of karma we must also take into account the karma of the future. Nor must it be forgotten that man is not an isolated being but that every individual has to share jointly in the collective karma of humanity. We must remember, too, that man, together with humanity, is connected with those hierarchies of Beings who have not entered into the physical world and that he is also drawn into the karma of the hierarchies. In the destinies of mankind in the spiritual world a great deal appears the connections of which are not to be sought in the immediate circumstances, but the karmic consequences come to pass inevitably. Since the second half of the Atlantean epoch, Ahriman's karma has been linked with the karma of mankind. Where, then, are the deeds of Ahriman, over and above what is wrought by him in the bodies of men in order to spread phantoms and illusion over the world of sense? Where are these other deeds?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"meaning_warning":"A sentence of this translation says something the German does not; translation_faults names it, with the German. quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning. Quote the German or another translation, or quote it only to show the fault.","word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p032","translation_faults":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p032","translation":"Dorothy S. 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If they were released they would instantaneously disperse into cosmic space. This stratum, therefore, lies under tremendous pressure. A third stratum is the “Vapor Earth”. It is not a material vapor such as arises on the earth's surface but in this third stratum the substance itself is imbued with inner forces, comparable only with the passions, the inner urges and impulses of man. Whereas on the earth it is only beings like animals and men who can unfold passions, this third stratum—just as the substances of the earth are permeated by forces of magnetism and warmth—is permeated in a material sense with forces similar to those we know as human and animal passions and impulses. The fourth or “Form Stratum” is so designated because it contains the material and the forces of what are encountered in the mineral part of the earth as entities cast into form. And the characteristic of the fifth stratum, or “Fertility Earth” is that even as material it teems with infinite fertility. If you were to get hold of part of this stratum it would perpetually be sending forth new impulses, new sproutings; rampant fertility is the intrinsic quality of this stratum. Then we come to the sixth stratum, the “Fire Earth”, containing as “substances” within it, forces that can bring about terrible havoc and destruction. It is actually into these forces that the primordial Fire has been banished.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":379,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p033","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p028","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p028"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":393,"en_words":379,"ratio":0.96,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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What manifests in the phenomena of outer nature, in air and water, in cloud formations, in lightning and thunder—all this is, so to speak, a last vestige on the earth's surface, of forces that were already connected with ancient Saturn and separated from the earth together with the sun. By what is working in these forces, the inner fire-forces of the earth are placed in the service of Ahriman. There he has the center of his activity; and whereas his spiritual influences make their way to the souls of men and lead them to error, we see how Ahriman—in a certain respect shackled—has certain foci for his activity in the interior of the earth. Were we to understand the mysterious connections of what has come to pass on the earth under Ahriman's influence and what Ahriman's own karma has become in consequence of this, we should recognize in the quakes and tremors of the earth the connection between such grievous, tragic happenings in nature and the power that holds sway on the earth. 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The power to work upon fire which man had formerly possessed, was withdrawn from him. Hence ancient Lemuria was brought to its destruction by the fire of the passions of men. The same fire that is now below was then above; it receded from the earth's surface and the same fire that issued as a kind of extract from the primordial fire is the inorganic, mineral fire of to-day. So too it was with the forces working through air and water which, again by way of the passions of men, led to the Atlantean catastrophes. These catastrophes were evoked by the collective karma of humanity but a relic has remained and this relic awakens the echoes of those earlier catastrophes. Our volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are nothing else than the echoes of these catastrophes. But it should never so much as occur to anyone to attach an iota of guilt to the victim of such a calamity or to withhold compassion in the fullest measure. It must be absolutely clear to an anthroposophist that the karma of these individuals has nothing to do with the guilt to which the catastrophes are due and it should never occur to him to withhold help from anyone because—to put it trivially—he believes in karma and therefore assumes that this destiny was brought on by the man himself. Karma demands of us that we help human beings because we may be sure that our help means something that is written in their karma and will turn that karma in a more favorable direction. Understanding that is based upon the recognition of karma must necessarily lead to compassion; our compassion for the victims of such catastrophes will be all the greater, for our knowledge tells us that there is a collective karma of humanity from which the individual members have to suffer, that just as such happenings are brought about by humanity as one whole, so too must humanity be answerable for them; we must regard such a destiny as our own and help not only out of a spontaneous impulse but because we know that we are involved in the karma of humanity and share the guilt incurred!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":386,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p036","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1909-01-01","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p031","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p031"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":394,"en_words":386,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Dagegen war es Ahriman-Mephistopheles, der den Menschen unter Gewalten gebracht hat, die viel, viel furchtbarer sind, und es wird in den nächsten Kulturen mancherlei auftreten, was man in Zusammenhang zu bringen hat mit dem Einflusse des Ahriman. Für den okkult Strebenden, der nicht auf festem und sicherem Grunde strebt, kann sehr leicht gerade durch den ahrimanischen Einfluß die furchtbarste Illusion, die furchtbarste Täuschung eintreten. Denn in der Tat ist Ahriman ein Geist, der darauf ausgeht, über die wahre Natur der Sinneswelt zu täuschen, zu täuschen nämlich darin, daß sie ein Ausdruck ist der geistigen Welt. Wenn der Mensch nun Veranlagung hat zu abnormen Zuständen, zu somnambulen Zuständen oder durch eine gewisse unrichtige Schulung okkulte Kräfte in sich erweckt und irgend etwas in sich hat, was zur Egoität, zum Egoismus hindrängt, dann hat gerade auf die okkulten Kräfte Ahriman oder Mephistopheles leicht einen Einfluß, einen Einfluß, der leicht ein gewaltiger werden kann. Während Luzifers Einfluß nur dahin gehen kann, daß dasjenige, was sozusagen aus der geistigen Welt - auch bei dem in unrichtiger Schulung sich Befindenden - dem Menschen begegnet, als astralische Gestalt entgegentritt, als eine Gestalt, die für den astralischen Leib sichtbar wird, treten diejenigen Gebilde, die auf den Einfluß Ahrimans zurückzuführen sind, dadurch zutage, daß die schlechten Einflüsse, die auf den physischen Leib ausgeübt werden, sich durchdrükken in den Ätherleib und dann als Phantome sichtbar werden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":264,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p020"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Wir haben es also bei dem Einflusse Ahrimans mit noch viel, viel niedrigeren Mächten zu tun als bei dem Einflusse Luzifers. Niemals können die Einflüsse Luzifers so schlimm werden wie die Einflüsse Ahrimans und jener Wesenheiten, die mit den Feuermächten zusammenhängen. Ahrimans oder Mephistopheles’ Einfluß kann es dahin bringen, daß der Mensch, um okkulte Erkenntnisse zu erlangen, dazu geführt wird, sagen wir zum Beispiel Verrichtungen vorzunehmen mit seinem physischen Leibe. Es ist das schlimmste Mittel, das angewendet werden kann, um zu okkulten Kräften zu kommen, das in Verrichtungen und im Mißbrauch des physischen Leibes besteht. In gewissen schwarzmagischen Schulen werden in der Tat solche Verrichtungen in dem ausgiebigsten Maße gelehrt. Es gehört zu den furchtbarsten Verführungen des Menschen, wenn der Ausgangspunkt für okkulte Schulung von den physischen Leibeskräften aus genommen wird.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p021"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p022","passage_number":22,"text":"Es kann hier darauf nicht einmal näher hingewiesen werden, sondern nur darauf, daß alle Machinationen, die irgendwie in einem Mißbrauch der physischen Leibeskräfte bestehen, von den Einflüssen herrühren, die von Ahriman herkommen, und es, weil sich das in des Menschen Ätherleib hineindrängt, wie ein Phantom wirkt, aber wie eine Phantomenwelt, die nichts anderes ist als das Kleid von Mächten, die den Menschen unter das Niveau des Menschen herunterziehen. Fast alle alten Kulturen, die indische, die persische, die ägyptische Kultur, die griechisch-lateinische Kultur haben ihre Dekadenzzeit durchgemacht, in der sie verfallen sind, in der auch die Mysterien verfallen sind, in der man nicht mehr die reinen Überlieferungen der Mysterien bewahrte. In diesen Zeiten sind viele von denen, die entweder Schüler der Eingeweihten waren und doch sich nicht auf ihrer Höhe haben halten können, oder solche Menschen, denen die Geheimnisse auf unrechtmäßige Weise verraten worden waren, nun auf verkehrte und schlechte Wege gekommen. Stätten schwarzmagischer Kräfte gingen von diesen Einflüssen aus und haben sich erhalten bis in unsere Zeit hinein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p022"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p023","passage_number":23,"text":"Ahriman ist ein Geist der Lüge, der dem Menschen Illusionen vorzaubert, der mit seinen Genossen allerdings in einer geistigen Welt wirkt. Nicht er ist ein Trugbild, o nein! Aber das, was sich unter seinem Einflusse vor des Menschen geistiges Auge gaukelt, das ist ein Trugbild. Wenn des Menschen Wünsche, wenn des Menschen Leidenschaften schlimme Wege gehen und er sich gleichzeitig irgendwie an okkulte Kräfte hingibt, dann drängen sich die okkulten Kräfte, die dadurch herauskommen, in den Ätherleib hinein, und es erscheinen unter den Trugbildern, die manchmal ganz ehrwürdige Gestalten sein können, die verderblichsten, die schlimmsten Mächte. So furchtbar ist der Einfluß des Ahriman auf den Menschen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p023"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p024","passage_number":24,"text":"Aus dem, was gesagt worden ist, können Sie entnehmen, daß sozusagen gerade durch die Erscheinung des Christus, wenn wir den Ausdruck gebrauchen wollen, Ahriman in Fesseln gelegt worden ist, allerdings nur für diejenigen, die immer mehr versuchen, das Christus-Mysterium zu durchdringen. Und immer weniger wird der Schutz in der Welt sein gegen den Einfluß Ahrimans außerhalb der Kräfte, die von dem Christus-Mysterium ausströmen. In gewisser Weise geht unsere Zeit - und viele Erscheinungen künden das - diesen Einflüssen Ahrimans entgegen. Gewisse Geheimlehren nennen die Scharen des Ahriman auch die Asuras. Es sind natürlich die schlechten Asuras, die aus der Entwicklungsbahn der Asuras, die dem Menschen die Persönlichkeit gegeben haben, in einer gewissen Zeit herausgefallen sind. Darauf ist ja schon hingedeutet, daß es sich um geistige Wesenheiten handelt, die vor der Sonnentrennung sich von der gesamten Entwicklung der Erde abgesondert haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p024"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025","passage_number":25,"text":"Es ist jetzt nur zunächst geschildert worden der furchtbare Einfluß, den auf eine gewisse abnorme Entwicklung, die in okkulten Bahnen gehen kann, Ahriman haben kann. Aber in gewisser Beziehung hat sich ja die ganze Menschheit in der zweiten Hälfte der atlantischen Zeit sozusagen unter den Einfluß Ahrimans begeben. Die ganze nachatlantische Zeit hat in einer gewissen Weise die Nachwirkungen des Einflusses Ahrimans in sich, auf dem einen Gebiete der Erde mehr, auf dem anderen weniger. Aber der Einfluß Ahrimans hat sich überall geltend gemacht, und alles, was in den Lehren der alten Eingeweihten den Völkern gegeben wurde von den dem Ahriman entgegenstehenden Lichtgeistern, das ist im Grunde genommen nur gegeben worden, um allmählich sich dem Einflusse Ahrimans zu entziehen. Das war eine vorbereitende, gut geführte, weise Erziehung der Menschheit.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p025"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p026","passage_number":26,"text":"Vergessen wir aber nicht, daß im Grunde genommen das Schicksal Ahrimans seit jener Zeit mit dem Schicksal der Menschheit in einer gewissen Weise verflochten ist, und die mannigfaltigsten Ereignisse, von denen der Uneingeweihte nichts wissen kann, halten das ganze Karma der Menschheit mit dem Karma Ahrimans in einem fortdauernden Zusammenhang. Wenn wir das, was jetzt gesagt werden soll, verstehen wollen, so müssen wir uns klarmachen, daß es außer dem Karma, das jeder einzelne hat, ein allgemeines karmisches Gesetz gibt auf allen Stufen des Daseins. Alle Wesensarten haben ihr Karma, das Karma des einen Wesens ist so, das der anderen Wesen ist anders. Aber Karma geht durch alle Reiche des Daseins, und es gibt durchaus Dinge im Menschheitskarma, in dem Karma eines Volkes, einer Gesellschaft oder einer anderen Menschheitsgruppe, die wir als ein gemeinschaftliches Karma ansehen müssen, so daß unter Umständen der einzelne mitgerissen werden kann von dem Gesamtkarma. Und es wird für den, der nicht die Dinge durchschauen kann, nicht immer leicht einzusehen sein, wo eigentlich die Einflüsse der Mächte liegen für die Menschen, die von diesem Schicksal getroffen worden sind. Es kann durchaus der einzelne, der in einer Gesamtheit drinnensteht, vermöge seines Einzelkarma ganz unschuldig sein; aber dadurch, daß er in einem Gesamtkarma drinnensteht, kann ein Unglück über ihn hereinbrechen. Wenn er aber ganz unschuldig ist, so wird sich das in späteren Verkörperungen ausgleichen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":225,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p026"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p027","passage_number":27,"text":"Im weiteren Zusammenhang dürfen wir nicht bloß auf das Karma der Vergangenheit sehen, sondern wir müssen auch an das Karma der Zukunft denken. Wir können durchaus sagen, daß es unter Umständen eine ganze Menschengruppe geben kann, und diese Gruppe verfällt einem furchtbaren Schicksal. Da ist nicht erfindlich, warum gerade diese Menschengruppe diesem Schicksal verfallen ist. Jemand, der das Karma des einzelnen Menschen untersuchen könnte, wird unter Umständen nichts finden können, was zu diesem traurigen Schicksal hätte führen können, denn die Zusammenhänge des Karma sind sehr verwickelt. Weit, weit weg vielleicht - aber doch mit ihnen verknüpft - steht das, was erfordert, daß solch ein Karma dieses oder jenes zutage bringt. Und dann kann es sein, daß die ganze Gruppe unschuldig von einem Gesamtkarma getroffen worden ist, während vielleicht die Zunächstschuldigen nicht getroffen werden konnten, weil die Möglichkeit dazu nicht vorhanden war. Dann kann man einzig und allein dieses sagen: In dem Gesamtkarma des einzelnen Menschen gleicht sich alles aus, auch wenn ihm unschuldig dieses ‚oder jenes zustößt; das schreibt sich ein in sein Karma, und es gleicht sich in völligster Weise in der Zukunft alles aus. Also wenn wir auf das Karmagesetz schen, müssen wir auch das Karma der Zukunft in Betracht ziehen. Aber wir müssen eben nicht vergessen, daß der Mensch nicht ein einzelnes, isoliertes Wesen ist, sondern wir haben darauf zu achten, daß jeder einzelne an dem gesamten Menschheitskarma mitzutragen hat. Wir dürfen auch nicht vergessen, daß der Mensch mit der Menschheit zugleich den Hierarchien der nicht in die physische Welt eingetretenen Wesenheiten angehört und daß er auch in das Karma dieser Hierarchien hineingezogen wird. Manches tritt an Menschheitsgeschicken in der physischen Welt auf, dessen Zusammenhang man zunächst nicht sucht bei den Dingen, mit denen das unmittelbar zusammenhängt; die karmischen Folgen treten aber unweigerlich ein. Ahrimans Karma ist verknüpft seit der zweiten Hälfte der atlantischen Zeit mit dem Menschheitskarma. Wo sind denn die Taten Ahrimans, außer dem, was Ahriman wirkt in den menschlichen Leibern, um dem Menschen Illusion und Phantome über die Sinneswelt beizubringen? Wo sind sie denn sonst?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":341,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p027"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p028","passage_number":28,"text":"Für alles in der Welt gibt es sozusagen zwei Seiten: eine Seite, die mehr dem Menschen als geistigem Wesen angehört, und andererseits das, was zu dem gehört, was sich als die Naturreiche um den Menschen herum herausgebildet hat. Des Menschen Schauplatz ist die Erde. Für den geistigen Blick stellt sich diese heraus als ein Zusammenhang von verschiedenen Schichten. Wir wissen, daß die äußerste Schicht unserer Erde genannt wird die mineralische Erde oder mineralische Schicht, da sie nur solche Stoffe enthält, wie wir sie unter unseren Füßen finden. Das ist die verhältnismäßig dünnste Schicht. Dann beginnt die weiche Erde. Diese Schicht hat ein ganz anderes materielles Gefüge als die über ihr befindliche mineralische Schicht. Diese zweite Schicht ist sozusagen mit einem inneren Leben begabt; und nur dadurch, daß die feste mineralische Schicht darübergebreitet ist, werden die inneren Kräfte dieser zweiten Schicht zusammengehalten. Denn in dem Augenblicke, wo man sie freilegen würde, würde sie sich zerstreuen in den ganzen Himmelsraum. Sie ist also eine Schicht, die unter einem ungeheuren Drucke liegt. Eine dritte Schicht ist die Dampfschicht. Aber sie ist nicht ein Dampf materieller Art, wie wir ihn auf der Oberfläche unserer Erde haben, sondern in dieser dritten Schicht ist die Substanz selbst mit inneren Kräften begabt, die wir nur vergleichen können mit den menschlichen Leidenschaften, mit den inneren Trieben des Menschen. Während auf der Erde nur Wesen, die so geformte Wesen sind wie Tiere und Menschen, Leidenschaften entwickeln können, ist diese dritte Schicht - aber doch ganz so, wie die Substanzen der Erde von magnetischen und Wärmekräften durchzogen sind — materiell durchzogen von Kräften, die dem gleich sind, was wir als menschliche und tierische Triebe und Leidenschaften kennen. Dann haben wir als vierte Schicht die Formenschicht, die so bezeichnet wird, weil sie das Material und die Kräfte enthält von dem, was uns in dem mineralischen Erdenteil als geformte Wesenheiten entgegentritt. Und die fünfte Schicht, die Fruchterde, hat die Eigentümlichkeit, daß sie als Material selbst von einer unendlichen Fruchtbarkeit ist. Wenn Sie einen Teil dieser Erdenschicht haben würden, so würde sie fortwährend aus sich heraus neue Triebe und Sprossen hervorsprießen lassen; strotzende Fruchtbarkeit ist das Element dieser Schicht. Nach dem kommen wir zu der sechsten Schicht, zu der Feuererde, welche Kräfte als Substanzen in sich enthält, die furchtbar verheerend und zerstörend werden können. Diese Kräfte sind es eigentlich, in welche die Urfeuer hineingebannt worden sind.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":393,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p028"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"In dieser Schicht wirkt materiell im Grunde genommen das Reich des Ahriman und von dieser Schicht aus wirkt es. Was in den äußeren Naturerscheinungen zutage tritt in Luft und Wasser, in Wolkenbildungen, was als Blitz und Donner erscheint, das ist sozusagen ein letzter Rest - aber ein guter Rest - auf der Erdoberfläche von dem, was an Kräften schon mit dem alten Saturn verbunden war und das sich mit der Sonne abgetrennt hat. Von dem, was in diesen Kräften wirkt, sind die inneren Feuerkräfte der Erde in den Dienst des Ahriman gestellt. Da hat er das Zentrum seines Wirkens. Und während seine geistigen Wirkungen in der geschilderten Art zu den Menschenseelen hinziehen und sie zum Irrtum führen, sehen wir, wie er -in einer gewissen Weise gefesselt - im Inneren der Erde gewisse Angriffspunkte seines Wirkens hat. Wenn man die geheimnisvollen Zusammenhänge kennen würde von dem, was auf der Erde unter dem Einflusse Ahrimans geschehen ist, und dem, was dadurch das eigene Karma Ahrimans geworden ist, so würde man in dem Beben der Erde den Zusammenhang erkennen zwischen dem, was als Naturereignisse in so furchtbar trauriger, tragischer Art vor sich geht, und dem, was auf der Erde waltet. Das ist zurückgeblieben seit den alten Zeiten als etwas, was auf der Erde in Reaktion tritt gegen die lichten, die guten Wesenheiten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p029"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p030","passage_number":30,"text":"So wirken über die Erde hin diese oder jene Kräfte, die mit jenen Wesen verbunden sind, die herausgestoßen worden sind aus dem Zusammenhange mit der Erde zu der Zeit, als die lichten, die guten Wesenheiten die heilsamen Erscheinungen um den Erdkreis herum geführt haben, und wir können in einer gewissen Weise den Nachklang dieser Feuerwirkungen, die dem Menschen früher entzogen worden sind, in dem erkennen, was das Feuer anrichtet in solchen furchtbaren Naturerscheinungen. Wir brauchen uns nicht zu sagen, daß etwa diejenigen, die von dem betroffen werden, was durch Ahrimans Karma hervorgerufen wird - das aber seit der atlantischen Zeit im Zusammenhange steht mit dem Menschheitskarma -, etwa daran irgendwelche Schuld haben. Das hängt zusammen mit dem gesamten Menschheitskarma, an dem auch der einzelne mitzutragen hat. Und ganz woanders liegen oftmals die Ursachen, die dann an bestimmten Stellen als die Wirkungen des Karma Ahrimans zum Austrag kommen, weil gerade diese Stellen die Gelegenheit dazu bieten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":155,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p030"},{"locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p031","passage_number":31,"text":"Da sehen wir einen Zusammenhang, der allerdings uns wie ein stehengebliebener Rest sonstiger uralter Menschheitskatastrophen erscheint. In der lemurischen Zeit wurde den Menschen die Gewalt entzogen, auf das Feuer zu wirken. Vorher konnte der Mensch auf das Feuer wirken. Daher ist das alte Lemurien zugrunde gegangen durch die Feuerleidenschaften der Menschen. Da war dasselbe Feuer, das jetzt unten ist, oben. Damals ist das Feuer zurückgetreten von der Erdoberfläche; dasselbe Feuer, das wie ein Extrakt aus dem Urfeuer herausgekommen ist, ist das unorganische Feuer, das mineralische Feuer von heute. Ebenso ist es gegangen mit den Kräften, die durch Luft und Wasser gehen und die durch die Leidenschaften der Menschen die Katastrophen von Atlantis herbeigeführt haben. Es war ein Gesamt-Menschheitskarma, das diese atlantischen Katastrophen hervorgerufen hat. Aber es ist ein Rest davon geblieben, und dieser Rest ruft die Nachklänge dieser Katastrophen hervor. Unsere Vulkanausbrüche und unsere Erderschütterungen sind nichts anderes als die Nachklänge dieser Katastrophen. Nur müssen wir in Betracht ziehen, daß niemandem auch nur beifallen dürfte, daß den gerade von einer solchen Katastrophe Betroffenen auch nur irgendein Teil der Schuld beizumessen sei und daß deshalb nicht in vollstem Umfange Mitleid für die dadurch Betroffenen hervorgerufen werden sollte. Das muß sich der Anthroposoph klarmachen, daß das Karma dieser Menschen nichts zu tun hat mit dem, was er tun darf, und daß er etwa einem Menschen nicht helfen dürfte, weil er -trivial gesprochen -an das Karma glaubt, daß der Mensch dieses Schicksal selbst herbeigeführt habe. Das ist es gerade, wozu uns das Karma auffordert: daß wir den Menschen helfen, weil wir sicher sein können, daß unsere Hilfe dann für den Menschen etwas bedeutet, was in sein Karma eingeschrieben wird, und wodurch sein Karma in eine günstigere Richtung kommt. Gerade zum Mitleid muß uns das Durchschauen der Welt führen, das auf Karma begründet ist. So wird uns das Verständnis gegenüber den unglücklich Leidenden und von einer solchen Katastrophe Betroffenen gerade um so mitleidiger machen, denn es besagt, daß es ein Gesamt-Menschheitskarma ist, an dem die einzelnen Menschheitsglieder zu leiden haben, und daß ebenso, wie die ganze Menschheit solche Ereignisse herbeiführt, auch die ganze Menschheit dafür aufzukommen hat, daß wir ein solches Schicksal als unser eigenes anzusehen haben, daß wir nicht einmal helfen, weil wir es freiwillig tun, sondern weil wir wissen: Wir stehen im Menschheitskarma drinnen, und was da verschuldet worden ist, das ist mit von uns verschuldet.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":394,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/107/1909-01-01/p031"}],"beads":[{"from":[25],"to":[20],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[26],"to":[21],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[27],"to":[22],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[28],"to":[23],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[29],"to":[24],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[30],"to":[25],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[31],"to":[26],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[32],"to":[27],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[33],"to":[28],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[34],"to":[29],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[35],"to":[30],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[36],"to":[31],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. 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