{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the wider connection we must look not only at the karma of the past but also think of the karma of the future. 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 quote_safe certifies the words, not the meaning: do not quote that sentence as Steiner's meaning.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.","title":"II. Mephistopheles and Earthquakes","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-01-01","location":null,"word_count":359,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/107/1909-01-01/p032","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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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? 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