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If we think we are not yet able to make use of the powers we have acquired by our conception of the world, we shall see that we have not sufficiently strengthened those powers for karma to make it possible for us to influence the world by means of them. So that in these lectures there will not only be a number of facts about karma, but with every hour our confidence in karma will be more fully awakened, and we shall have the certainty that, when the time comes, be it tomorrow, or the day after, or many years hence, our karma will bring us the tasks which we, as Anthroposophists, have to perform. Karma will reveal itself to us as a teaching which does not tell us merely what is the connection between this or that in the world, but we can, with the revelations it brings to us, make life more satisfactory, and at the same time raise it to a higher standard.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. 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Wir werden sehen: Wenn wir vermeinen, wir könnten die aus unserer Weltanschauung gewonnenen Kräfte noch nicht anwenden, dann haben wir eben diese Kräfte noch nicht genügend stark gemacht, damit sie bewirken können, daß Karma es uns auch ermögliche, in die Welt mit diesen Kräften einzugreifen. So soll nicht nur eine Summe von Erkenntnissen über Karma in diesen Vorträgen leben, sondern es soll mit jeder Stunde mehr das Vertrauen in Karma geweckt werden, die Gewißheit, daß, wenn die Zeit gekommen sein wird, ob es nun morgen oder übermorgen oder nach vielen Jahren sein wird, unser Karma uns Aufgaben bringen wird, insofern wir als Bekenner unserer Weltanschauung Aufgaben zu verrichten haben. 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