{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Then the man returns once more to life on earth. His consciousness is altered again. He does not recollect the time between death and rebirth, or the resolutions to make compensation. But the intention remains within him, and although he does not know that he must do such and such a thing to compensate such and such an act, yet he is impelled by the power within him to make the compensation. Now we can form an idea of what happens when a man in his twentieth year suffers bitter trial. With the consciousness he possesses between birth and death, he will be depressed by the trial; but if he could remember his resolutions made between death and rebirth, he would be able to trace the power which drove him into the position in which he suffered the trial, because he felt that only by passing through it would he win back the degree of perfection which he has lost and was now to regain. When, therefore, the ordinary consciousness says, ‘The trial is there, and you are suffering from it,’ it sees only the trouble itself, and not the effect it produces; but the other consciousness which can look back upon all the time between death and rebirth, sees the intentional seeking for the trial or other misfortune.","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":219,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p025","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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Sein Bewußtsein wird wieder ein anderes; er erinnert sich nicht zurück an die Zeit zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt und auch nicht daran, wie er die Absicht gefaßt hat, etwas auszugleichen. Aber diese Absicht sitzt in ihm. Und wenn er auch nicht weiß: Du mußt dies oder das tun, um das oder jenes auszugleichen! -, so wird er doch durch die Kraft, die in ihm sitzt, zu irgendeiner Handlung hingetrieben, die ein Ausgleich ist. Und jetzt können wir uns eine Vorstellung machen, was vor sich geht, wenn einen Menschen zum Beispiel im zwanzigsten Jahre etwas sehr Schmerzliches trifft. Mit seinem Bewußtsein, das er hat zwischen Geburt und Tod, wird er niedergedrückt sein durch seinen Schmerz. Würde er sich aber daran erinnern, was er in dem Leben zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt an Absichten aufgenommen hat, dann würde er auch die Kraft spüren, die ihn hingetrieben hat an die Stelle, wo er diesen Schmerz hat erleiden können, weil er gefühlt hat, daß er den Grad von Vollkommenbheit, den er sich verscherzt hat und den er wiedererringen soll, nur dadurch wieder erreichen kann, daß er diesen Schmerz durchmacht. 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