{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 116/1909-12-22/p028","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The etheric and astral bodies are organised for the purpose of maintaining the finger as it now is. I can never cut the etheric finger nor the astral finger. If I cut my finger in two, the etheric finger can no longer carry out its proper duty. It is accustomed to have the fingers in their right connection. Now this connection is interrupted:—just as your activity was interrupted, when you wanted to water your garden. Thus the astral and etheric bodies are not able to intervene, and the prevention from exercising the usual activity is felt in the astral body as pain. But the moment these bodies are interrupted, they make an extra effort,—just as you, wishing to water your garden, would make extra efforts to find the watering-pot or the like. In the same way our astral and etheric bodies must now call forth greater activity in order to repair the injury. It is the extra activity thus called forth which is the actual healing force. Whatever calls forth great activity in the spiritual bodies of man, produces healing. Now the cause of all illness is, that through some disorder in the physical or even in the etheric body of man, the spiritual principles are prevented from intervening in the proper way, they are hindered, as it were; and the healing consists in the calling forth of a stronger resistance to the disorder.—An illness may either be healed, or we may die of it.—Let us consider both these possibilities from the karmic standpoint.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. The Law of Karma with Respect to the Details of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1909-12-22","location":null,"word_count":254,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/116/1909-12-22/p028","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Henry Collison","identified_edition":"APC1926","book_title":"The Christ Impulse and the Development of the Ego-Consciousness","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA116/English/APC1926/19091222p01.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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Wenn ich meinen Finger entzweischneide, so geschieht das, daß der Ätherfinger nicht mehr richtig eingreifen kann. Er ist gewohnt, den richtigen Zusammenhang des Fingers zu haben und dieser Zusammenhang ist jetzt gestört, ebenso wie vorher meine Tätigkeit, als ich den Garten begießen wollte. Der astralische Leib und der Ätherleib können also nicht eingreifen, und das macht sich geltend im astralischen Leibe als Schmerz, als Entbehrung. Die gewohnten Tätigkeiten nicht ausüben, in der gewohnten Weise nicht eingreifen zu können, das gibt sich im astralischen Leib als Schmerz kund. Im Augenblick aber, wo der Ätherleib und der astralische Leib nicht mehr richtig eingreifen können, macht sich auch eine größere Anstrengung geltend. Geradeso wie wir in unserem Falle, wenn wir den Garten begießen wollen, Anstrengungen machen, die Gießkanne zu suchen oder dergleichen, so müssen jetzt auch astralischer Leib und Ätherleib eine größere Tätigkeit aufwenden, um die Sache wiederum in Ordnung zu bringen. Und diese größere Tätigkeit, welche da aufgewendet werden muß, ist das eigentlich Heilende. Da wird das Geistige zu einer energischeren Tätigkeit aufgerufen, und das ist das eigentlich Heilende. Dasjenige, was die geistigen Glieder des Menschen zu einer größeren Tätigkeit aufrufen kann, das bringt die Heilung hervor. Nun beruht jede Krankheit darauf, daß durch irgendeine Unordnung im physischen Leib oder auch im Ätherleib des Menschen die geistigen Teile nicht in der richtigen Weise eingreifen können, sozusagen daran gehindert sind, und die Heilung besteht in der Aufrufung einer stärkeren Widerstandskraft gegen die Unordnung. Nun kann eine Krankheit entweder so verlaufen, daß sie geheilt wird, oder wir können daran sterben. 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