{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p024","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus we see that we must be taught not entirely by our own individual life karma, but by the law of inter-dependence which karma as a whole signifies. This may be very useful in our life. What should a man do who in his fortieth year attempts to avert the effect of wrongs done to him, or wrongs which he himself did in his twelfth year? He will do everything to avert the consequences of his own misdeeds or those of others towards him. He will to a certain extent replace by another the result which would inevitably have taken place had he not intervened. The knowledge of what happened in his twelfth year will lead him to a definite action in his fortieth year, which he would not have taken unless he had known that this or that had happened in his twelfth year. What then, has the man done by looking back at his early life? He has through the knowledge thus attained, allowed a definite result to follow a cause. He has willed the cause and has brought it about. This shows now how, in the line of karmic consequences, our will can intervene and bring about something which takes the place of the karmic effects which would otherwise have followed. If we consider such a case in which a person has quite consciously brought about a connection between cause and effect in life, we could conclude that in this case karma or the laws of karma have penetrated his consciousness, and he has himself, in a certain way brought about the karmic effect. Let us now apply the same reflections to what we know about the life of man in his different reincarnations upon earth. The consciousness of which we have just spoken which extends, with the exception mentioned, throughout the period between birth and death, is due to the fact that man is able to use his brain as an instrument. When a man steps through the gate of death, a different sort of consciousness comes into play—one that is independent of the brain and works under essentially different conditions. We also know that this consciousness, which lasts until a new birth, can look back over all that has been done by the man in his life between birth and death. In this period between birth and death we must first form the intention to look back at any wrongs which have been done to us, or which we have done, if we wish to counteract these wrongs karmically. After death, in looking back over life, we see what we have done wrong or otherwise; and at the same time we see how these deeds have affected ourselves; we see how, to a certain action, our characters have been improved or debased. If we have brought suffering to anyone, we have sunk and become of less value; we are less perfect, so to speak. Now, if we look back after death we see numerous events of the sort, and we say to ourselves: ‘I have deteriorated.’ Then in the consciousness after death, the will and power arise to win back, when the opportunities occur, the value we have lost; the will, that is to say, to make compensation for every wrong committed. Thus between death and re-birth the tendency and intention is formed to make good what has been done wrong, in order to regain the standard of perfection a man should have—a standard which has been lowered by the deed referred to.","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":588,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p024","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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Die Erkenntnis dessen, was es im zwölften Jahre gegeben hat, wird ihn selbst zu einer bestimmten Handlung im vierzigsten Jahre führen. Diese Handlung hätte er nicht getan, wenn er nicht erkannt hätte, daß es dieses oder jenes im zwölften Jahre gegeben hat. Was hat der Mensch also durch sein Zurückblicken auf sein früheres Leben getan? Er hat selber durch sein Bewußtsein folgen lassen auf eine Ursache eine bestimmte Wirkung. Er hat gewollt die Wirkung, welche er jetzt herbeigeführt hat. — Das zeigt uns, wie in die Linie der karmischen Folgen unser Wille eingreifen und etwas schaffen kann, was an Stelle von sonst eingetretenen karmischen Wirkungen steht. Nehmen wir einen solchen Zusammenhang, wo unser Bewußtsein ganz bewußt eine Verbindung zwischen Ursache und Wirkung im Lebenslauf herbeiführt, so werden wir uns sagen: Bei einem solchen Menschen ist Karma oder karmische Geserzmäßigkeit ins Bewußtsein hineingetreten, er hat selbst in gewisser Weise die karmische Wirkung herbeigeführt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":270,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p028"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p029","passage_number":29,"text":"Nehmen wir nun aber einmal an, wir legen einer ähnlichen Betrachtung dasjenige zugrunde, was wir über die wiederholten Erdenläufe eines Menschen wissen. Das Bewußtsein, von dem wir eben gesprochen haben, das sich ausdehnt mit der angedeuteten Ausnahme auf unser Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod, das entsteht dadurch, daß sich der Mensch des Instrumentes seines Gehirns bedienen kann. Wenn der Mensch durch die Pforte des Todes schreitet, tritt ein andersgeartetes Bewußtsein auf, das unabhängig ist vom Gehirn und an wesentlich andere Bedingungen gebunden ist. Und wir wissen, daß für dieses Bewußtsein, das bis zur neuen Geburt dauert, eine Art Rückblick auftritt über alles, was der Mensch in dem Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod vollbracht hat. Im Leben zwischen Geburt und Tod muß sich der Mensch erst die Absicht bilden, zurückzublicken auf irgendwelche Sünden, die an ihm begangen worden sind, wenn er die Wirkung dieser Sünden wirklich karmisch in sein Leben einführen soll. Nach dem Tode schaut der Mensch im Zurückblicken auf sein Leben auf dasjenige, was er an Sünden oder überhaupt an Handlungen vollbracht hat. Da schaut er auch zugleich das, was diese Handlungen an seiner Seele oder aus seiner Seele gemacht haben. Da sieht der Mensch, wie er dadurch, daß er eine bestimmte Handlung getan hat, in seinem Werte gesunken oder gestiegen ist. Haben wir einem andern zum Beispiel irgendein Leid zugefügt, so ist unser Wert dadurch gesunken; wir sind sozusagen weniger wert geworden, sind unvollkommener geworden, indem wir dem andern das Leid zugefügt haben. Wenn wir nun nach dem Tode zurückblicken, sehen wir auf zahlreiche solche Fälle zurück, bei denen wir uns sagen: Wir sind dadurch unvollkommener geworden. Daraus aber folgt für das Bewußtsein nach dem Tode, daß in ihm die Kraft und der Wille entstehen, wenn es wieder Gelegenheit dazu hat, alles zu tun, um jenen Wert wieder zu erringen, welchen es verloren hat, das heißt der Wille, alles Leid auszugleichen, das es zugefügt hat. Der Mensch nimmt also zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt die Tendenz, die Absicht auf, was er Schlechtes getan hat, wieder auszugleichen, damit er überhaupt den Standpunkt der Vollkommenheit wieder erringen kann, den er als Mensch haben soll und der verhindert worden ist durch die entsprechende Tat.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":363,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p029"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-16/p024"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":633,"en_words":588,"ratio":0.93,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8705,"original_word_count":8647,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"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. 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