{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p032","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Finally, we can bring to light something, the elements of which we can find in the general principles described in my book, *Occult Science*. We know that certain beings remained at the stage of the old Moon evolution and that these beings did so for the purpose of giving to human beings certain definite qualities. Not only beings, but also substances, remained from the old Moon-time of the earth. At the Moon stage there remained behind beings who influenced our earth's existence as luciferic beings. As a result of this, certain effects are manifested on our earth of which the causes are to be found in the Moon life. But from the point of being of actual substance something analogous was also brought about. As we now see our solar system, we find it composed of heavenly bodies which regularly carry out recurrent movements showing a sort of inner completeness. But we find other heavenly bodies which move, indeed, with a certain rhythm, but break through, as it were, the usual laws of the solar system. These are the comets. Now, the substance of a comet does not obey the laws which exist in our solar system, but such laws as prevailed in the old Moon-existence. Indeed, the laws of that old Moon are preserved in the life of the comet. I have already often pointed out that Spiritual Science had indicated certain laws of science before they were confirmed by Natural Science. In Paris, in 1906, I drew attention to the fact that, during the old Moon-existence, certain combinations of carbon and nitrogen played a similar part to that played at the present day on our earth by combinations of oxygen and carbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and so on. These latter have something deadly in them. Cyanide combinations, prussic acid combinations, played a similar part during the old Moon-existence. Attention was called to these facts by Spiritual Science in 1906, and in other lectures it was shown that comets bring the laws of the old Moon-existence into our solar system, so that not only the luciferic beings remained behind, but also the laws of the old Moon-substance, which work in our solar system in an irregular way. We have always said that a comet must contain something like cyanide combinations in its atmosphere. Only much later, namely this year, 1910, was prussic acid found by spectrum analysis in the comet, proving what had already been made known by Spiritual Science. If we are ever asked to show whether anything can be discovered by Spiritual Science we have here a proof. There are more of such proofs if only one could observe them. So there is something of the old Moon-existence working in our present earth existence. Now we come to the question: Can it be maintained that something spiritual lies behind a phenomenon observed by means of the outer senses?","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":482,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p032","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. 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Auf der Mondenstufe sind Wesen stehengeblieben, die als luziferische Wesenheiten in unser Erdendasein hineinwirken. Durch diese Tatsache des Stehenbleibens und des Hereinwirkens in unser Erdendasein vollziehen sich im Erdendasein Wirkungen, zu denen die Ursachen schon im Mondendasein gelegt worden sind. Aber auch substantiell vollzieht sich so etwas. - Wenn wir heute unser Sonnensystem ansehen, finden wir es zusammengesetzt aus Weltenkörpern, die regelmäßig wiederkehrende und eine gewisse innere Geschlossenheit zeigende Bewegungen ausführen. Aber andere Weltenkörper finden wir, die sich zwar auch mit einem gewissen Rhythmus bewegen, die aber sozusagen die gewöhnlichen Gesetze des Sonnensystems durchbrechen, nämlich die Kometen. Nun ist die Substanz eines Kometen nicht eine solche mit Gesetzen, wie sie in unserem gewöhnlichen, regulären Sonnensystem bestehen, sondern mit Gesetzen, wie sie im alten Mondendasein existiert haben. In der Tat hat sich im kometarischen Dasein erhalten die Gesetzmäßigkeit des alten Mondendaseins. Ich habe schon öfter erwähnt, daß die Geisteswissenschaft diese Gesetzmäßigkeit nachgewiesen hat, bevor eine Bestätigung von seiten der Naturwissenschaft eingetreten ist. Im Jahre 1906 habe ich in Paris auf die Tatsache aufmerksam gemacht, daß während des alten Mondendaseins gewisse Verbindungen von Kohlenstoff und Stickstoff eine ähnliche Rolle spielten wie heute auf der Erde Verbindungen von Sauerstoff und Kohlenstoff, also Kohlensäure, Kohlendioxyd und so weiter. Diese letzteren Verbindungen haben etwas Ertötendes. Eine ähnliche Rolle haben Zyanverbindungen, blausäureartige Verbindungen während des alten Mondendaseins gespielt. Auf diese Tatsache wurde hingewiesen von der Geisteswissenschaft 1906. Auch in andern Vorträgen wurde darauf hingewiesen, daß das kometarische Dasein die Gesetze des alten Mondendaseins hineinführt in unser Sonnensystem, so daß also nicht nur zurückgeblieben sind die luziferischen Wesen, sondern auch die Gesetzmäßigkeit der alten Mondensubstanz, die in unregelmäßiger Weise hineinwirkt in unser Sonnensystem. Und es wurde immer gesagt, das kometarische Dasein müsse heute noch etwas enthalten wie Zyanverbindungen in der Kometenatmosphäre. Erst viel später, als das durch die Geisteswissenschaft verkündet worden ist, in diesem Jahre erst, ist durch die Spektralanalyse das Blausäurespektrum im Kometendasein gefunden worden.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":362,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p039"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p040","passage_number":40,"text":"Hier haben Sie einen der Beweise dafür, wenn gesagt wird: Zeigt uns einmal, wie man wirklich mit der Geisteswissenschaft etwas finden kann! - Solche Dinge gibt es mehr; sie sollten nur beobachtet werden. So wirkt also etwas hinein von unserem alten Mondendasein in das jetzige Erdendasein.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":46,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p040"},{"locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p041","passage_number":41,"text":"Nun fragen wir uns: Darf behauptet werden, daß äußeren sinnlichen Erscheinungen zugrunde liegt ein Geistiges?","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":15,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p041"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-16/p032"],"method":"reader","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":442,"en_words":482,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 120/1910-05-16/p038","GA 120/1910-05-16/p039","GA 120/1910-05-16/p040","GA 120/1910-05-16/p041"]},"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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