{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p029","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Here we have a sporadic memory rising in Kepler of what he received as a germ for the work which he, in his personal life as Kepler, accomplished. Hundreds of similar cases might be given. But we see in Kepler something more than the mere manifestation of effects which were the result of causes in a previous incarnation—we see a manifestation which has its significance for the whole of mankind—a manifestation of something which was equally important for the humanity in a previous epoch. We see how a person is placed in the special position in order to do something for the whole of mankind. We see that not only in individual lives, but in the whole of humanity, there are connections between cause and effect, which stretch over wide periods of time, and we can deduce that the karmic law of the individual will intersect the laws which we may call ‘karmic laws of humanity.’ Sometimes this intersection is only slightly perceptible. Imagine what would have happened to our astronomy if the telescope had not been discovered at that particular time. If we look back at the history of the telescope we see of what tremendous importance the discovery has been. Now it is well known that the discovery of the telescope was made in the following way: Some children were playing with lenses in an optician's workshop and by chance, as one might say, they had so placed the optical lenses that someone hit upon the idea of employing this arrangement to make something like a telescope. Think how deeply you must search in order to arrive at the individual karma of the children and the karma of humanity which led to the discovery at that particular moment. Try to think the two facts out together, and you will see in what a remarkable manner the karma of single individuals and the karma of the whole of humanity intercept and are interwoven. You must admit that the whole of the development of mankind would have been different if such and such a thing had not come to pass when it did.","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":353,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p029","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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Wir sehen, daß nicht nur im individuellen Menschenleben, sondern daß in der ganzen Menschheit Zusammenhänge bestehen zwischen Ursachen und Wirkungen, die sich über weite Zeiträume hin erstrecken. Und wir können daraus entnehmen, daß sich das individuelle Karmagesetz kreuzen wird mit den Gesetzen, welche wir nennen können die karmischen Menschheitsgesetze. Manchmal ist dieses Kreuzen allerdings wenig durchsichtig. Denken Sie, was wäre aus unserer Astronomie geworden, wenn einstmals nicht das Fernrohr erfunden worden wäre, das in einer bestimmten Zeit erfunden worden ist. Verfolgen Sie unsere Astronomie zurück, und Sie werden sehen, daß unendlich vieles an der Erfindung des Fernrohres hängt. Nun ist es ja bekannt, daß das Fernrohr dadurch erfunden worden ist, daß in einer optischen Werkstatt einmal Kinder mit Linsen gespielt haben, wobei sie durch einen «Zufall», so könnte man sagen, optische Linsen so zusammengestellt haben, daß hernach jemand darauf gekommen ist: Dadurch könnte sich so etwas ergeben wie ein Fernrohr. — Denken Sie, wie tief Sie suchen müssen, um zu dem individuellen Karma der Kinder und dem Karma der Menschheit zu kommen, daß in einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt das Fernrohr erfunden worden ist! Versuchen Sie das zusammenzudenken, und Sie werden sehen, wie in merkwürdiger Art das Karma einzelner Individualitäten und das Karma der ganzen Menschheit sich kreuzen und ineinanderweben! Da werden Sie sich sagen: Man müßte sich die ganze Menschheitsentwickelung anders denken, wenn nicht zu einer bestimmten Zeit dies oder jenes eingetreten wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":339,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p035"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-16/p029"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":339,"en_words":353,"ratio":1.04,"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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