{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In this course of lectures we shall deal with certain questions in the realms of Spiritual Science which play a great part in life. From the different lectures which in the course of time have been given, you will have learned that Spiritual Science should not be an abstract theory, not a mere doctrine or teaching, but a source of life and aptitude for life. It only fulfils its task when by the knowledge it is able to give, it pours into our souls something which makes life richer and more comprehensible, strengthening our souls and invigorating them. When the anthroposophist sets before him the ideal we have just summed up in a few words, and then looks around him to see how far he can put it into practice, he will perhaps receive a by no means gratifying impression. For if we consider impartially what the world thinks it ‘knows’ nowadays, and what leads men to this or that feeling or action, we might say all this is so very different from Anthroposophical ideas and ideals, that the Anthroposophist is quite unable to influence life directly by what he has acquired from Spiritual Science. This would however be a very superficial view of the situation, not taking into consideration what we ourselves have gained from our world conception. If those powers which we acquire through anthroposophy really become strong enough, they will find a way to work in the world; but if nothing is ever done to make these powers increasingly stronger, then indeed will it be impossible for them to influence the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The Nature and Significance of Karma in the Personal and Individual; and in Humanity, the Earth and the Universe","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-16","location":null,"word_count":265,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100516p01.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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Aus den verschiedenen Darstellungen, die im Laufe der Zeit gegeben worden sind, ist es uns ja geläufig, daß Geisteswissenschaft nicht eine abstrakte Theorie sein soll, nicht eine bloße Doktrin oder Lehre, sondern ein Quell für Leben und Lebenstüchtigkeit, und sie erfüllt erst dann ihre Aufgabe, wenn durch das, was sie an Erkenntnissen zu geben vermag, etwas hineinfließt in unsere Seelen, was das Leben reicher, verständlicher, was unsere Seelen tüchtiger und tatkräftiger machen kann. Wenn sich nun allerdings derjenige, der sich zu dieser unserer Weltanschauung bekennt, jenes Ideal, das eben mit ein paar Worten gekennzeichnet worden ist, vorhält und in der Gegenwart dann ein wenig Umschau hält, inwiefern er imstande ist, das, was ihm aus der Theosophie erfließt, in diesem Leben umzusetzen, dann könnte er vielleicht zu einem recht wenig erfreulichen Eindruck kommen. 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