{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p026","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This, indeed, is actually shown to us when we look out over a man's life from a higher standpoint. Then we can see that fateful events occur in human life which are not the results of causes in the individual life itself, but are the effects of causes perceived in another state of consciousness, namely, the consciousness we had before re-birth. If we grasp these ideas thoroughly, we shall see that in the first place we have a consciousness which extends over the time between birth and death, which we call the consciousness of the ‘Personality.’ And then we see that there is a consciousness which works beyond birth and death of which man in his ordinary consciousness knows nothing, but which nevertheless works in the same way as the ordinary consciousness. We have, therefore, shown first of all how anyone may take over his own karma, and in his fortieth year make some compensation so that the causes of his twelfth year may not come to effect. Thus he takes karma into his personal consciousness. If, however, the man is driven somewhere where he has to suffer pain in order to compensate for something and to become a better man, this also proceeds from the man himself; not from his personal consciousness, but from a more comprehensive consciousness which operates during the period between death and rebirth. The entity included in this consciousness we will call the ‘individuality,’ and this consciousness, which is being continually interrupted by the ‘personal consciousness,’ we will call the ‘individual consciousness.’ Thus we see karma operative in relation to the individual human being.","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":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p026","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 diesen Gedanken genau fassen, werden wir sagen: Wir haben zunächst ein Bewußtsein, das sich ausdehnt über die Zeit zwischen Geburt und Tod und welches wir das Bewußtsein der Einzelpersönlichkeit nennen wollen, und wir wollen als Einzelpersönlichkeit dasjenige bezeichnen, was zwischen Geburt und Tod verläuft. Sodann sehen wir, wie ein Bewußtsein wirken kann über Geburt und Tod hinaus, von dem der Mensch in seinem gewöhnlichen Bewußtsein nichts weiß, das aber gerade so wirken kann wie dieses gewöhnliche Bewußtsein. Wir haben deshalb zunächst geschildert, wie jemand selbst sein Karma übernimmt und im vierzigsten Jahre zum Beispiel etwas ausgleicht, damit ihn die Ursachen vom zwölften Jahre nicht treffen. Da nimmt er Karma in sein Einzelpersönlichkeitsbewußtsein hinein. Wenn dagegen der Mensch irgendwohin getrieben wird, wo er einen Schmerz erleiden kann, um etwas auszugleichen, um ein besserer Mensch zu werden, so kommt das auch aus dem Menschen; nur kommt es nicht aus dem Einzelpersönlichkeitsbewußtsein, sondern aus einem umfassenderen Bewußtsein, das mitumfaßt die Zeit zwischen Tod und neuer Geburt. Dasjenige Wesen im Menschen, welches von diesem Bewußtsein umfaßt wird, wollen wir die «Individualität» des Menschen nennen; und dieses Bewußtsein, das also fortwährend unterbrochen wird durch das Persönlichkeitsbewußtsein, wollen wir das «individuelle Bewußtsein» nennen, im Gegensatz zum Einzelpersönlichkeitsbewußtsein. 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