{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Let us start, then, with the study of the karma of one special person. Fate deals a man in his twenty-fifth year a heavy blow, which causes him pain and suffering. Now, if our observations are of such a nature that we merely say ‘This heavy blow has just broken into his life and has filled it with pain and suffering,’ we shall never arrive at an understanding of karmic connections. But if we go a little further and observe the life of this person in his fiftieth year, after he has passed through such a trouble in his twenty-fifth year, we shall perhaps come to a different conclusion which we might be able to express thus: ‘The man whom we are now observing has become industrious and active, leading an excellent life.’ Now, let us look further back into his life. When he was twenty we find that he was a good-for-nothing fellow, and thoroughly idle. At twenty-five this trouble came upon him, and had he not met with this blow we may now say that he would have remained a good-for-nothing. In this case the severe blow of fate was the cause that at the age of fifty we now find him an industrious and excellent man.","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":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p015","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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Wenn wir aber weiterschreiten und das Leben eines solchen Menschen, der im fünfundzwanzigsten Jahre einen derartigen Schicksalsschlag erlebt hat, in seinem fünfzigsten Jahre betrachten, dann werden wir vielleicht zu einer Anschauung kommen, die wir etwa so ausdrücken können: Der Mensch, den wir da betrachten, ist ein Mensch geworden, fleißig und regsam, der tüchtig im Leben dasteht; jetzt schauen wir weiter zurück in sein Leben. Mit zwanzig Jahren - so finden wir dann — war er noch ein Taugenichts und hat überhaupt nichts tun wollen; mit fünfundzwanzig Jahren hat ihn dann der schwere Schicksalsschlag getroffen. Hätte ihn dieser Schlag nicht getroffen - so können wir jetzt sagen -, so wäre er ein Taugenichts geblieben. 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